Patent ID: 11924177
Assignee: WHITESTAR COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 10:
11. The method of claim 7, wherein the obtaining includes:
sending a secure next-hop request message to a management device in the secure peer-to-peer data network, including encrypting a payload of the secure next-hop request message based on a third secure public key of the management device and signing the secure next-hop request message using the secure private key;
validating a secure next-hop reply message based on verifying a second signature using the third secure public key and decrypting the reachability information of the next-hop reply message using the secure private key; and
adding the reachability information to a flow table for identifying a flow from the first endpoint device to the second endpoint device via the second replicator device.