Patent · US Expired

System for providing secure internetwork by connecting type enforcing secure computers to external network for limiting access to data based on user and process access rights

US5864683A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateOct 12, 1994
Grant dateJan 26, 1999
Priority date
Expiry dateOct 12, 2014

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L63/0823
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A system and method for the secure transfer of data between a workstation connected to a private network and a remote computer connected to an unsecured network. A secure computer is inserted into the private network to serve as the gateway to the unsecured network and a client subsystem is added to the workstation in order to control the transfer of data from the workstation to the secure computer. The secure computer includes a private network interface connected to the private network, an unsecured network interface connected to the unsecured network, wherein the unsecured network interface includes means for encrypting data to be transferred from the first workstation to the remote computer, a server function for transferring data between the private network interface and the unsecured network interface and a filter function for filtering data transferred between the remote computer and the workstation.

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