Patent ID: 9384342
Filing Date: 2016-07-05
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method of providing a warning associated with credentials to be stored in a credential store on a computing device, the method comprising: receiving a request to store, in the credential store, at least one credential for a specified service; determining whether a secure connection between the computing device and the specified service is available; associating the specified service with a level of security based on at least one of an availability of the secure connection or one or more properties of the secure connection, the specified service being associated with a secure level if the secure connection is available and is of a minimum encryption strength, and with a non-secure level otherwise; determining (i) that at least one credential stored in the credential store is for a service that is associated with a different level of security from the level of security with which the specified service is associated, and (ii) that at least one of the at least one credential for the service associated with the different level of security corresponds to the at least one credential for the specified service; and providing a warning in response to the determining.