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

Claim 12:
13. The administration server of claim 10, further comprising a control module to receive an indication that a new printing device is to be added to the plurality of printing devices;
wherein in response to receiving the indication that the new printing device is to be added, the control module further to:
cause the provisioning module to provision the new printing device a private cryptographic key associated with the new printing device;
store a public cryptographic key corresponding to the private cryptographic key provisioned to the new printing device in the key store;
obtain an indication that the new printing device is to be added to the first group of printing devices;
cause the cryptographic key module to generate 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
the key distribution module further to cause the network interface to transmit the new first group public key to the user.