Security device for ring network

Details Security device for ring network Security device for ring network

1994-09-16

1999-12-21

Barron, Jr., Gilberto

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support

Multiple computer communication using cryptography

Protection at a particular protocol layer

380 23, 380 49, 370245, 370452, G06F 1340

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060063300

ABSTRACT:
A ring data network (such as a token ring network) is divided by a security unit (1) into first and second segments (6 and 8). The second segment (8) typically corresponds to one security group in the network. Logic in the security unit reads appropriate parts of each frame (typically the two address segments) to determine whether it is appropriate to forward the frame to the next segment of the ring. If the frame does not need to go to the next segment, or is not authorized to do so, then the security unit forwards instead a modified form of the frame in which its data cannot be read (except possibly by the security unit itself). In most cases the data content of the frame will be stored in the security unit. When the modified frame returns to the security unit at its second input port (4), the original frame can (if appropriate) be reconstructed, typically by reading its data content from a store in the security unit. In this way, the frame is returned to the secure group at the same time and in the same form as if it had travelled around the first segment of the ring, but there is no opportunity for stations in the first segment to eavesdrop upon the frame.

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