Remote verification of attributes in a communication network

摘要

It is provided an apparatus, comprising property checking means configured to check whether a claimant property information received from a claimant device corresponds to a predefined claimant attribute; obtaining means configured to obtain a result, which is positive only if the claimant property information corresponds to the predefined claimant attribute as checked by the property checking means; key generation means configured to generate a first claimant intermediate key from a predefined claimant permanent key stored in the apparatus; supplying means configured to supply, to the claimant device, the first claimant intermediate key using a secured protocol, wherein at least one of the key generation means and the supplying means is configured to generate and to supply, respectively, the first claimant intermediate key only if the result is positive.

主权项

1. An apparatus, comprising:
a hardware processor configured to supply a claimant property information of the apparatus to an evaluation device using a secured protocol; a hardware processor configured to establish a communication with an enforcement device different from the evaluation device based on an effective claimant session key, wherein the effective claimant session key is based on a first claimant intermediate key received by the apparatus from the evaluation device, the first claimant intermediate key having been generated by the evaluation device based on a securely stored predefined claimant permanent key stored by the evaluation device.