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OwnerEmile STEPHAN, Romuald CORBEL +2inventors
InventorsEmile STEPHAN, Romuald CORBEL, Gaël FROMENTOUX, Frédéric FIEAU
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A solution for revoking a certificate supplied to a device in an edge computing environment. Existing authentication solutions are not well suited to the context of edge computing since they cannot meet the demands required to manage these items of equipment which may be deployed in distributed infrastructures, but which may be reconfigured, suspended, removed, reactivated or even reassigned to another master node depending on the demands to be met. The present solution makes it possible, by reusing components that are already present in a communication network, to revoke a certificate whose integrity cannot be called into question since the trusted third party issuing the certificate is the operator managing the communication network.
A method for revoking a first certification token corresponding to a first certificate, the first certification token for authenticating the establishment of a connection between a device connected to at least one communication network and at least one server of a service provider, the first certification token and the first certificate being generated from a hash of a physical address of the device, a certificate associated with a network address configuration server and at least one network address allocated to the device by the network address configuration server, the method comprising the following implemented by a certificate management module:
A certificate management module adapted to revoke a first certification token corresponding to a first certificate, the first certification token for authenticating the establishment of a connection between a device connected to at least one communication network and at least one server of a service provider, the first certification token and the first certificate being generated by the certificate management module from a hash of a physical address of the device, a certificate associated with a network address configuration server and at least one network address allocated to the device by the network address configuration server, the certificate management module comprising at least one processor configured to:
A network address configuration server comprising at least one certificate management module adapted to revoke a first certification token corresponding to a first certificate, the first certification token for authenticating the establishment of a connection between a device connected to at least one communication network and at least one server of a service provider, the first certification token and the first certificate being generated by the certificate management module from a hash of a physical address of the device, a certificate associated with the network address configuration server and at least one network address allocated to the device by the network address configuration server, the certificate management module comprising at least one processor configured to:
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