Patent ID: 8171293

Claim:
A device-implemented method to execute on a secure device, comprising: exchanging, by the secure device, certificates with a sender via a receiver, the sender and the receiver are to engage in a communication with one another, the sender certificate includes a public key of the sender and the secure device certificate includes a public key of the secure device; recording, by the secure device, an exchange date and time the exchange took place with the sender in an encrypted format using a private key of the secure device; supplying, by the secure device, a decrypted version of an encrypted key to the receiver, when the receiver presents the encrypted key, the receiver makes a specific request of the secure device via the encrypted key, and the receiver uses the decrypted version to complete the communication by decrypting data that had been encrypted within the communication, the secure device is a tamper resistant device that is prefabricated with the private key that when provided provides administrative access to the secure device, the secure device is situated within a local environment to the receiver; and interacting, by the secure device, with the sender permitting the sender to perform an audit to establish that the receiver did receive the decrypted version of the encrypted key from the secure device.