Patent ID: 7810139
Filing Date: 2010-10-05
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: receiving a request for authorization to initiate an operation of a security system; notifying a remote authorization principal of the request, the remote authorization principal is a user who is certified as a crypto officer for the secure system and the remote authorization principal is not physically and not geographically present at the security system when notified and the remote authorization principal is communicated with over a wide-area-network via a phone of the remote authorization principal, the remote authorization principal is notified via a text message to the phone of the request to initiate the operation and at the same time a voice message is sent to the phone of the remote authorization principal, the voice message indicating that the remote authorization principal is to use a random passkey along with credentials of the remote authorization principal to gain access to a random key generator and acquire a secret; obtaining the secret in response to the notification; acquiring an access key in response to the secret; submitting the access key to the security system to initiate the operation; notifying one or more additional remote authorization principals of the request; obtaining one or more additional secrets from the one or more additional remote authorization principals; acquiring one or more additional access keys in response to the one or more additional secrets; and submitting the one or more additional access keys to the security system to finalize the initiation of the operation.