Patent ID: 9577823
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method for creating rule based cryptographic key material, the method comprising: receiving a request to create a rule based cryptographic key material; creating a rule based attribute set comprising at least one rule set defining conditions under which an associated state of the rule based cryptographic key material will be set to valid so that the rule based cryptographic key material will be honored for authenticated communications or set to invalid so that the rule based cryptographic key material will not be honored for authenticated communications, the at least one rule set comprising at least one of: times at which the rule based cryptographic key material should be valid and/or invalid; quorum information; and geo-fence information; causing an association between the rule based attribute set and cryptographic key material to create the rule based key material; deploying the rule based key material to a system.