US 2017/0288866 A1 · SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF CREATING A DISTRIBUTED RING OF TRUST

Abstract

A trust relationship can be established between two or more identities without the need of a certificate authority. Trust relationships between identities can be maintained in a distributed ring of trust between two or more identities. The distributed ring of trust can be on a signed identity list. A node desiring to add an identity to the ring of trust sends a request to a member of the ring of trust. The receiving member can determine whether or not to approve the request. In some aspects, approval can be based on a previously shared key or a two-party verification. Upon approval, the requested identity is added to a trusted identity list indicating identities associated with current members of the ring of trust. The updated trusted identity list can then be distributed to the members of the ring of trust.

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Dependent claims

A computerized distributed ring of trust comprising:

a first computerized node of a plurality of computerized nodes each having an identity and communicatively coupled via an electronic communications network, the first node creating a trusted identity list and configured to receive requests via the communications network;
a second computerized node of the plurality of computerized nodes, which sends a request to add the identity of the second node to the trusted identity list via the communication network;
the first node receiving the request and determining whether to approve the request based at least in part on an authorization code and in response to approving the request, the first node adding the identity of the second node to the trusted identity list, signing the trusted identity list with a shared private key, and providing a response indicating approval of the request to the second node via the communication network.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Systems and methods of creating a distributed ring of trust

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Systems and methods of creating a distributed ring of trust

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Abstract

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