Secure password provision
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorMatthew Francis Peters
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Abstract
The invention provides a method for providing, from a client computer across a network, a secure password to one or more remote computers. The method comprises the steps of: obtaining a string associated with an application on one of the or each remote computer; obtaining a password from a user of the client computer; combining the string and the password irreversibly to generate a secure password for the application; and providing only the secure password to the one remote computer.
Claims8
In a client computer in a network, a method for generating a secure password for enabling access across said network to applications on one or more remote computers, said method comprising the steps of:
- obtaining a string associated with one of said applications on one of the or each remote computer;
- obtaining a password from a user of said client computer;
- combining said string and said password irreversibly to generate a secure password for accessing said application;
- and
- providing only said secure password to said one remote computer for enabling access to said one of said applications.
Apparatus operable in a client computer in a network adapted to generate a secure password for enabling access across said network to applications on one or more remote computers, said apparatus comprising:
- means for obtaining a string associated with one of said application on one of the or each remote computer;
- means for obtaining a password from a user of said client computer;
- means for combining said string and said password irreversibly to generate a secure password for accessing said application;
- and
- means for providing only said secure password to said one remote computer for enabling access to said one of said applications.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.