Patent ID: 7644276

Claim:
A method for verifying that a secure association has been formed between a first device and a second device the method including: enabling a user of the first device to select a verification indicator; encrypting the verification indicator using an encryption key of the first device to form cipher text; communicating the cipher text to the second device using a multi-part communication protocol; decrypting the cipher text using an encryption key of the second device to obtain a received verification indicator; and verifying the association is secure if the received verification indicator is the same as the selected verification indicator; wherein communicating the cipher text to the second device using a multi-part communication protocol, includes: communicating a first part of the cipher text to the second device; and communicating a second part of the cipher text to the second device, upon receipt, by the user of the first device, of confirmation that the first part of the cipher text has been received at the second device.