Patent ID: 8327417
Filing Date: 2012-12-04
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A machine-implemented method to execute on a machine, comprising: detecting, by the machine, a request for initiating a secure operation; evaluating, by the machine, a policy associated with authorizing the secure operation for initiation, the policy drives a processing flow and procedures that must be used to acquire one or more access keys and content for the one or more access keys that are expected before the request is authenticated and initiated, the processing flow and procedures randomly generated via the policy evaluation; making, by the machine, a request to an authorization acquisition service to acquire the one or more access keys pursuant to the policy from one or more remote authorization principals; and receiving and verifying, by the machine, the one more access keys, which are received from the authorization acquisition service in response to one or more secrets obtained from the one or more remote authorization principals.