Device address rotation authorization and verification
AssigneeCisco Technology, Inc.
InventorsNagendra Kumar Nainar, Carlos M. Pignataro, Robert E. Barton, Jerome Henry
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AssigneeCisco Technology, Inc.
InventorsNagendra Kumar Nainar, Carlos M. Pignataro, Robert E. Barton, Jerome Henry
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An authorization device obtains a registration request associated with an end device, the registration request including a new randomized media access control (MAC) address associated with the end device; determines whether the end device is authorized to use the new randomized MAC address; transmits a message to the end device with a first randomly generated number when it is determined that the end device is authorized to use the new randomized MAC address; obtains integrity information associated with the end device, the first integrity information being computed based on the first randomly generated number; transmits a request to a validation system to validate the end device based on the first integrity information; obtains an indication that the end device is validated; determines policies associated with the end device when it is determined that the end device is validated; and applies the policies to the end device.
A method comprising:
An apparatus comprising:
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising instructions that when executed configure one or more processors of an end device to perform operations comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.