Patent ID: 9686244
Date: 2017-06-20
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for altering the status of cryptographic key material, the method comprising: receiving, by a processor via a network, a rule evaluation message from a system having presently deployed cryptographic key material used for authenticated communication, the rule evaluation message including information to allow the recipient to determine compliance with at least one rule included in a rule based attribute set associated with the presently deployed cryptographic key material; accessing the rule based attribute set associated with the presently deployed cryptographic key material; evaluating compliance of the system with the at least one rule; responsive to the evaluation of the at least one rule, setting a status of the cryptographic key material to either a suspended state when the system is not in compliance with the at least one rule where the cryptographic key material will not be honored to validate the system in an authenticated session or a reinstated state when the system is in compliance with the at least one rule where the cryptographic key material will be honored to validate the system in an authenticates session.