Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Secure shared key establishment for peer to peer communications
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Application No.: US16644158Application Date: 2017-09-27
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Publication No.: US11563567B2Publication Date: 2023-01-24
- Inventor: Eric Le Saint
- Applicant: Visa International Service Association
- Applicant Address: US CA San Francisco
- Assignee: Visa International Service Association
- Current Assignee: Visa International Service Association
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Francisco
- Agency: Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
- International Application: PCT/US2017/053837 WO 20170927
- International Announcement: WO2019/066822 WO 20190404
- Main IPC: H04L9/08
- IPC: H04L9/08 ; G06F9/4401 ; G06F21/60 ; H04L9/32

Abstract:
Systems and methods for secure peer-to-peer communications are described. Devices registered into trusted network may be capable of establishing a shared data encryption key (DEK). In embodiments, each device may be configured to obtain a share of a data encryption key (DEKi) that can be stored locally. The shares may be shares in an M of N Secret Sharing Scheme. This may involve a network that includes an integer, N, devices, and in which M devices may share a secret (i.e. the DEK) during communications, M being an integer less than or equal to N. To obtain the entire DEK during encryption/decryption, a requesting device may send requests to M of N devices for their shares of the DEK. Once M shares are obtained, they may be used generate the DEK for encrypting/decrypting data between the devices.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210111875A1 SECURE SHARED KEY ESTABLISHMENT FOR PEER TO PEER COMMUNICATIONS Public/Granted day:2021-04-15
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