Patent ID: 9699184
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A method for processing data, comprising: conveying input data from a safety component to a security component; calculating, at the security component, a second identifier based on the input data; conveying the second identifier to the safety component; verifying, at the safety component, a first identifier based on the second identifier; conveying the input data and a fourth identifier, which is determined based on a predetermined operation applied to the first identifier, from the safety component to the security component; calculating, at the security component, a third identifier based on the input data; and comparing, at the security component, either a modified fourth identifier with the third identifier or the fourth identifier with a modified third identifier, wherein the third identifier is conveyed as the second identifier from the security component to the safety component in case the comparison confirmed that either the modified fourth identifier and the third identifier are the same or the fourth identifier and the modified third identifier are the same.