Method for packet authentication in the presence of network address translations and protocol conversions
US6795917B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Oct 21, 1999 |
| Grant date | Sep 21, 2004 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 21, 2019 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L63/20
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
For achieving packet authentication according to an applicable security policy between a sending node (903) and a receiving node (902) in a network, the following steps are taken:the transformations occurring to a packet en route between the sending node and the receiving node are discovered dynamically (1003, 1004),the discovered transformations are checked (1004) to be acceptable based on the applicable security policy, andthe dynamically discovered, acceptable transformations are compensated for (1004, 1006) before authenticating packets transmitted from the sending node to the receiving node.
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