Patent ID: 11874936
Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 5:
6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
determining that a new printing device is to be added to the plurality of printing devices;
provisioning the new printing device a private cryptographic key associated with the new printing device;
determining that the new printing device is to be added to the first group of printing devices;
in response to determining that the new printing device is to be added to the first group of printing devices:
generating a new first group public key based on the public cryptographic keys corresponding to the respective private cryptographic keys provisioned to the first subset of the plurality of printing devices and to the new printing device; and
providing the new first group public key to the user.