Inter-Cluster Gateway Encryption for Traceable Private Communications
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing communication network systems face inefficiencies in scaling to accommodate organizational growth, requiring excessive resources for secure communications between non-trusting entities susceptible to eavesdropping and spoofing.
Innovation Solution
An inter-cluster network security tool utilizing local and enterprise certificates to generate shared keys for encrypting and decrypting communications between private distributed application clusters, ensuring secure communication through mutual authentication and authorization.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional approaches are used to scale communication network computer systems to accommodate organizational growth, then the system can support more internal systems and connections, but an exorbitant amount of resources is required
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the communication network into multiple private distributed application clusters, each operating independently with its own security context. This segmentation allows the system to scale by adding clusters without requiring proportional increases in centralized security resources, as each cluster manages its own authentication and encryption independently.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements preliminary action by pre-establishing trust relationships through certificate authorities and pre-configuring security policies at the cluster level. This allows new clusters to be added to the network without requiring real-time security resource allocation or centralized authentication overhead, enabling scalable growth.
2Reliability
If encrypted communications are implemented between private distributed application clusters that do not trust one another, then security against eavesdropping and spoofing is improved, but communication complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces intermediary components including certificate authorities and inter-cluster egress/ingress gateways that mediate secure communications between distrustful clusters. These intermediaries handle the complex cryptographic operations and trust verification, allowing application clusters to communicate securely without directly managing the complexity of mutual authentication and encryption protocols.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements partial action by establishing trust relationships only between specific clusters that need to communicate, rather than requiring all clusters to trust each other universally. This selective approach reduces the overall complexity of inter-cluster communications while maintaining security where needed.
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AI summary
A method for implementing an inter-cluster network security tool that facilitates private communications between a first private distributed application cluster and a set of private distributed application clusters within a secured enterprise network. The method may comprise utilizing a first local cluster certificate to generate a first shared key; receiving the first encrypted communication, utilizing the first shared key to decrypt the first encrypted communication, utilizing a second shared key to generate a second encrypted communication, and transmitting the second encrypted communication to a first remote inter-cluster ingress gateway that corresponds to a first remote private distributed application cluster from among the set of private distributed application clusters.