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

Claim 12:
13. One or more non-transitory tangible media encoded with logic for execution by a machine and when executed by the machine operable for:
generating and maintaining, by a replicator device in a secure peer-to-peer data network, a secure private key and a corresponding secure public key;
first establishing, by the replicator device, a corresponding two-way trusted relationship with at least a second replicator device for establishment of a pairwise topology of two-way trusted replicator devices in the secure peer-to-peer data network;
second establishing, by the replicator device, a corresponding two-way trusted relationship with a first endpoint device based on validating a secure attachment request using the secure private key, and obtaining a second secure public key of the first endpoint device;
validating, by the replicator device using the second secure public key, a secure data packet received from the first endpoint device and destined for a second endpoint device, and in response obtaining reachability information for reaching the second endpoint device via the second replicator device in the pairwise topology; and
securely signing the secure data packet, received from the first endpoint device and destined for the second endpoint device, into a secure forwarded packet for secure transmission to the second replicator device;
wherein the securely signing comprises:
generating a signature based on signing the secure data packet with the secure private key, and
attaching the signature to the secure data packet, the signature enabling the second replicator device to validate the secure forwarded packet based on the secure public key;
wherein the validating is based on:
determining the secure data packet is not an attack,
verifying the corresponding two-way trusted relationship with the first endpoint device having sent the secure data packet, and
verifying a signature in the secure data packet was generated by the first endpoint device based on the second secure public key;
wherein the secure data packet comprises an encrypted payload that is unreadable by the replicator device.