US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Oct. 27 for "Network device host key verification by network controller using a cryptographic channel and a list of audit events" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,904, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Network device host key verification by network controller using a cryptographic channel and a list of audit events" was invented by Deep Chand Patel (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Kannan Krishnamurthy (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and architecture are described that leverage a trusted cryptographic channel by a network controller to authenticate an unfamiliar host key found on a network device when the network controller is attempting to establish a secure connection over a secure channel. The network controller may authenticate ...