Method for suspending a certification token for authenticating the establishment of a connection between two items of communication equipment, corresponding devices and computer programs
EP4544740A1Pending Publication Date: 2025-04-30ORANGE SA
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Patent Information
- Application Number
- EP2023734539
- Authority / Receiving Office
- EP · EP
- Patent Type
- Applications
- Current Assignee / Owner
- Priority Date
- 2022-06-22
- Filing Date
- 2023-06-19
- Publication Date
- 2025-04-30
AI Technical Summary
Technical Problem
Existing authentication solutions, such as HTTPS, are not well-suited for edge computing environments where nodes can be distributed, reconfigured, or mobile, leading to invalidation of certificates and increased management complexity.
Method used
A method for suspending a certification token associated with equipment, rather than revoking it, using a digest of a physical address and network address configuration, allowing for agile management of certificates in edge computing environments.
Benefits of technology
This approach reduces the number of certificate management exchanges, maintaining connection integrity and authenticity without the need for frequent certificate revocation, enhancing agility in dynamic edge computing environments.
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Abstract
The invention relates to a solution for suspending a certificate provided to an item of equipment in an edge computing environment. Existing authentication solutions are not well suited to the context of edge computing since they cannot meet the demands required to manage these items of equipment, which may be deployed in distributed infrastructures, but which may, above all, be reconfigured, suspended, removed, reactivated or even reassigned to another master node depending on the demands to be met. The solution that is the subject of the present invention makes it possible, by reusing components that are already present in a communication network, to manage (suspend, remove the suspension of) a certificate the integrity of which cannot be called into question since the trusted third party who issued the certificate is the operator managing the communication network.
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