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US 2010/0161969 A1Published application
Network device authentication
AssigneeNortel Networks Limited
InventorsDragan Grebovich, Kumara Das Karunakaran, Biju Kunjukunju
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Abstract
The present invention relates to using digital certificates to allow network devices to authenticate themselves upon being accepted into and forming part of a communication network.
Claims28
A method for authenticating network devices that form part of a communication network comprising:
- receiving a digital certificate of a network device from a management system that obtained the digital certificate from a tag applied to the network device;
- receiving the digital certificate being provided by the network device requesting to become part of a communication network,;
- verifying authenticity of the digital certificate provided by the network device;
- determining whether the network device should be allowed to become part of the communication network based on a comparison of at least a portion of the digital certificate received from the management system and the digital certificate provided by the network device;
- allowing the network device to become part of the communication network when the network device should be allowed to become part of the communication network.
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An authentication system for authenticating network devices that form part of a communication network comprising:
- at least one communication interface;
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- a control system associated with the at least one communication interface and adapted to:
- receive a digital certificate of a network device from a management system that obtained the digital certificate from a tag applied to the network device;
- receive the digital certificate being provided by a network device that is requesting to become part of a communication network;
- verify authenticity of the digital certificate provided by the network device;
- determine whether the network device should be allowed to become part of the communication network based on a comparison of at least a portion of the digital certificate received from the management system and the digital certificate provided by the network device;
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- allow the network device to become part of the communication network when the network device should be allowed to become part of the communication network.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.