Patent ID: 8190879

Claim:
A method, performed by a particular machine, the method comprising: acting, by the particular machine, as a security transparent proxy, including using decryption and encryption, to bridge packets of a first secure session with a client and packets of a second secure session with a server, with the first secure session using a first key, and with the second secure session using a second key different than the first key; while said acting as the security transparent proxy, initiating key renegotiation resulting in the client, with the first secure session, and the server, with the second secure session, using a same particular key; and acting as a non-security transparent proxy subsequent to said key renegotiation, which includes: receiving packets from the first secure session and forwarding, without decrypting nor encrypting using the particular key, to the server over the second secure session, and receiving packet from the second secure session and forwarding, without decrypting nor encrypting using the particular key, to the client over the first secure session, such that neither the first secure session nor the second secure session is dropped between said acting as the security transparent proxy to acting as the non-security transparent proxy.