Patent ID: 6847995

Claim:
A method of operating a distributed processing system having a network coupling a multiplicity of Host distributed devices for processing workloads for the distributed processing system, a plurality of Client systems requesting processing of the workloads, and a Server system for selectively distributing the workloads form the plurality of Client systems for processing on the distributed processing system comprising the steps of: generating a security measure for electronic information to be sent from the Server system to the multiplicity of Host distributed devices; partitioning the security measure into a number of N security measure sections; sending first electronic information and a first security measure section selected from the N security measure sections to a first Host distributed device; providing first data to the first Host distributed device defining which security measure section of the possible N security measure sections corresponds to the first security measure section for each security measure generated for the electronic information; receiving particular electronic information and a corresponding particular security measure section in the first Host distributed device; processing the particular electronic information thereby generating a reconstructed security measure; and comparing the particular security measure section to a security section within the reconstructed security measure defined by the first data thereby validating the particular electronic information.