Microsoft patents secure way for cloud apps to prove their identity
Microsoft describes a method where a middleman component checks if a piece of software is allowed to connect to a cloud identity service. If the check passes, the middleman adds a digital signature to the request before sending it to the cloud. This helps establish trust between the local software and the remote authentication server.
In the filing’s own words
Methods, apparatuses, and products for trust establishment for cloud computing environments include establishing an initial trust between an intermediary component of a computing environment and a host of the computing environment; intercepting, by the intermediary, a request from software executing within the computing environment to an identity authentication endpoint; determining, by the intermediary, whether to authenticate the software; in response to determining to authenticate the software, applying, by the intermediary, a digital signature to the request; and forwarding the request, with the digital signature, to the identity authentication endpoint.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method of trust establishment for cloud computing environments, comprising: establishing an initial trust between an intermediary component of a computing environment and a host of the computing environment; intercepting, by the intermediary component, a request from software executing within the computing environment to an identity authentication endpoint; determining, by the intermediary component, whether to authenticate the software; in response to determining to authenticate the software, applying, by the intermediary component, a digital signature to the request; and forwarding the request, with the digital signature, to the identity authentication endpoint.
Facts
- Company
- Microsoft (Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC)
- Official title
- TAMPER RESISTANT SECRETS DELIVERY FOR CLOUD IDENTITY BOOTSTRAPPING
- Publication number
- US20260281099A1
- Application number
- 19078040
- Filed
- Mar 12, 2025
- Published
- Sep 17, 2026
- Inventors
- 7
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
H04L 63/083 Electricity & electronicsG06F 21/575 Physics & computingG06F 2221/034 Physics & computingMore from Microsoft in Security & privacy
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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