Persistance and recovery of security keys
US7051210B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 20, 2001 |
| Grant date | May 23, 2006 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 15, 2023 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L63/06
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method and system for persisting and recovering security keys in order to authorize access to a network system is disclosed. Certain security keys are read from a file with root as the effictive user id in order to enable the reading of the keys. The certain security keys are placed into a local cache by the read process. If there are no errors in the read process, the certain security keys will preferably include a private key. If the private key is not in the cache (e.g., because there was an error in the read process) the authorization fails.
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