Title: Method and apparatus for establishing a secure connection
Patent application publication number: 20060294381
Publication date: December 28, 2006
Filing date: June 22, 2005
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AIPW Summary: A method for establishing a secure connection with a peer device. Identities of trusted peer devices are stored locally in a device. If a device has not been stored locally as being a trusted device, the user of the device is prompted to access the requested peer device. Once the peer device is identified as being “trusted”, the devices establish a secure connection. Digital certificates can also be used to determine whether a peer device is “trusted”. This method uses TLS (Transport Layer Security) certificates (the successor to SSL) for security.