Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Securing private key access for cross-component message processing
- Patent Title (中): 确保跨组件消息处理的私钥访问
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Application No.: US13296514Application Date: 2011-11-15
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Publication No.: US09166794B2Publication Date: 2015-10-20
- Inventor: Alexander Sherkin , Ravi Singh , Nikhil Vats , Neil Patrick Adams
- Applicant: Alexander Sherkin , Ravi Singh , Nikhil Vats , Neil Patrick Adams
- Applicant Address: CA Waterloo
- Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
- Current Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
- Current Assignee Address: CA Waterloo
- Agency: Ridout & Maybee LLP
- Main IPC: H04L9/32
- IPC: H04L9/32 ; H04W12/10 ; H04L12/58 ; H04W12/04 ; H04L29/06

Abstract:
Often, for reasons of wireless bandwidth conservation, incomplete messages are provided to wireless messaging devices. Employing cryptography, for secrecy or authentication purposes, when including a received message that has been incompletely received can lead to lack of context on the receiver's end. By automatically obtaining the entirety of the message to be included, an outgoing message that includes the received message can be processed in a manner that securely and accurately represents the intended outgoing message. Alternatively, a server can assemble a composite message from a new message and an original message and, in cooperation with a wireless messaging device, sign the composite message. Since signing the composite message involves access to a private key, access to that private key is secured such that such access to the private key can only be arranged responsive to an explicit request for a hash that is to be signed using the private key.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120131346A1 SECURING PRIVATE KEY ACCESS FOR CROSS-COMPONENT MESSAGE PROCESSING Public/Granted day:2012-05-24
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