Patent ID: 8417949

Claim:
A system that facilitates securing communications between two servers, comprising: a mutual authentication component that authenticates a sender of a message, the sender being any one of the two servers; a mutual authorization component that authorizes a receiver of the message, the receiver is the other of the two servers; and a channel encryption component that cryptographically secures a communication channel for the message, the channel encryption component employing an anonymous Transport Layer Security (TLS) mechanism including a self-signed certificate, the self-signed certificate being generated on-the-fly by the anonymous TLS mechanism, the anonymous TLS mechanism being in a coupled sequence with the mutual authorization component securing the communication channel against a Man-In-The-Middle (MITM) attack by utilizing a public key of the self-signed certificate in an MITM challenge response, the mutual authorization component comprising an authentication extension carrying various security package tokens, the anonymous TLS mechanism being employed, without certificate verification, providing integrity and privacy protection and not providing authentication.