Patent ID: 8949616
Filing Date: 2015-02-03
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of encrypting authentication information, comprising: receiving a request for a user-associated password at a user computing device from a requesting device; receiving the user-associated password at the user computing device from a user, the user-associated password having a format that comprises a number of characters, wherein the user-associated password is a password that authenticates an identity of the user, thereby being authentication information; generating a temporary password, by the user computing device; generating, by the user computing device, a key from the temporary password; encrypting, by the user computing device, the received user-associated password using at least the key resulting in an encrypted user-associated password having the same format and the same number of characters as the received user-associated password; and communicating the encrypted user-associated password from the user computing device to the requesting device in place of the received user-associated password in response to the request for the user-associated password.