Method for enabling a user to initiate a password protected backup of the user's credentials
OwnerRobert Paganetti, David Kerninventors
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Abstract
A method is provided for a enabling a user to initiate a password protected backup copy of the user's credentials. The method includes providing a user with a credential store containing information relating to the user's identity, generating a different recovery password of any length for each recovery authority, encrypting the recovery password for each recovery authority, storing the encrypted recovery passwords in the credential store, and sending a copy of the information by the user from the credential store to a central repository.
Claims22
A method for enabling a user to protect a password stored in a central repository and maintained by a plurality of recovery authorities and to initiate a backup copy of the user's credentials, the method comprising:
- providing a user with a credential store containing information relating to the user's identity;
- generating a different recovery password for each of said recovery authorities;
- encrypting said recovery password for each of said recovery authorities;
- storing said encrypted recovery passwords in said credential store;
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- sending a portion of said information together with said password and said encrypted recovery password by the user from the credential store to the central repository.
A method for enabling a user to protect a password stored in a central repository and to initiate a backup copy of the user's credentials, the method comprising:
- providing a user with a credential store containing information relating to the user's identity;
- querying the user for a password for encrypting at least a portion of said information;
- providing a user's password in response to said query;
- generating a recovery password;
- encrypting said recovery password;
- linking said user's password with said encrypted recovery password;
- storing said user's password and said encrypted recovery password in the credential store;
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- sending said portion of said information together with said password and said encrypted recovery password by the user from the credential store to the central repository.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.