Patent ID: 8667281

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for transferring authentication credentials, at least a portion of the method being performed by a computing device comprising at least one processor, the method comprising: identifying a transfer request by a second computing device to receive an authentication credential that is stored on a first computing device onto the second computing device; identifying an asymmetric key pair on the second computing device; generating an identifier of the asymmetric key pair on the second computing device; transmitting, by the second computing device, an encryption key of the asymmetric key pair and the identifier of the asymmetric key pair to a credential repository, wherein the decryption key of the asymmetric key pair is available at the second computing device; displaying, by the second computing device, the identifier of the asymmetric key pair to facilitate retrieval of the authentication credential from the credential repository based on the identifier that is used by the first computing device to query and retrieve the encryption key and transfer the authentication credential encrypted with the encryption key to the credential repository; retrieving, by the second computing device, the encrypted authentication credential from the credential repository.