Patent ID: 9641339
Date: 2017-05-02
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A non-transitory machine-readable medium having executable instructions to cause one or more processing units to perform a method to authenticate a field replaceable unit of a network element, the method comprising: authenticating the field replaceable unit by decrypting encrypted manufacturing data stored on the field replaceable unit using a developer public key that is a pair to a developer private key used to create the encrypted manufacturing data stored on the network element and comparing the decrypted manufacturing data with stored manufacturing data from the network element, wherein the encrypted manufacturing data is stored on the field replaceable unit prior to the field replaceable unit coupling to the network element and the field replaceable unit is selected from a group consisting of a line card and a fabric card; and if the decrypted manufacturing data is authenticated, using the field replaceable unit to operate the network element, if the field replaceable unit is verified.