摘要 |
The invention relates to an apparatus and for facilitating the reauthentication of a user using a client computer to a serer computer. In o ne embodiment, the method includes the steps of receiving, by the server, confidential information during a first communication session between the server and a client, encrypting the confidential information with a key to create encrypted confidential information, and storing the encrypted confidential information in the server's memory. The method also includes th e steps of transmitting, by the server, the key to the client and deleting, by the server, the key from the server's memory. When the server receives the k ey from the client during a second communication session, the server uses the k ey to decrypt the encrypted confidential information.
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