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

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
first causing, by a management device in a secure peer-to-peer data network, replicator devices in the secure peer-to-peer data network to establish a pairwise topology of two-way trusted replicator devices;
second causing, by the management device, a first endpoint device to establish a two-way trusted relationship with a first of the replicator devices in the pairwise topology;
third causing, by the management device, a second endpoint device to establish a two-way trusted relationship with a second of the replicator devices in the pairwise topology; and
supplying, by the management device, reachability information that enables the first replicator device to reach the second endpoint device via the second replicator device;
the reachability causing the first replicator device to securely sign a 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 second causing includes:
verifying a signature within a secure replicator attachment request, received from the first endpoint device, based on a secure public key of the first endpoint device,
decrypting the secure replicator attachment request based on a secure private key having been generated and owned by the management device,
selecting the first replicator device for attachment by the first endpoint device based on decryption of the secure replicator attachment request, and
generating and outputting, to the first endpoint device, a secure replicator attachment response based on encrypting a portion of the secure replicator attachment response using the secure public key of the first endpoint device, and digitally signing the secure replicator attachment response using the secure private key.