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US 2011/0258690 A1Published application
Secure handling of identification tokens
AssigneeHuman Interface Security Ltd
InventorsMarc Gaffan, Oran Epelbaum, Amir Zilberstein, Lior Frenkel
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Abstract
A method for authentication includes, in a first computer (14), receiving from a second computer (16) over a net-work (18) a communication containing an identification token. At the first computer, the identification token is stored only in a memory (30) of an information protection device (20), which is connected to the first computer by a local interface (34).
Claims35
A method for authentication, comprising:
- in a first computer, receiving from a second computer over a network a communication containing an identification token;
- and
- at the first computer, storing the identification token only in a memory of an information protection device, which is connected to the first computer by a local interface.
An information protection device, comprising:
- a local interface for connection to a first computer;
- a memory;
- and
- a processor, which is configured to store in the memory an identification token that is received in the first computer from a second computer over a network, and to exchange the identification token with the first computer over the local interface when exchanging communication between the first computer and the second computer.
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A system for authentication, comprising:
- an information protection device comprising a memory and a local interface;
- and
- a first computer, which is connected to the information protection device using the local interface and is configured to receive from a second computer over a network a communication containing an identification token, and to store the identification token only in the memory of the information protection device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.