Method and system for secure communication between a public network and a local network

Andrea Bragagnini (Inventor), Diego Buffa (Inventor), Paolo Pellegrino (Inventor), Luca Scevola (Inventor), Drory Shohat (Inventor), Zac Sadan (Inventor), Niv Gilboa (Inventor)

Research output: Patent

Abstract

A method for secure communication between a local area network (32) and a wide area network (10) comprises integrating a NAT functionality (29) in a firewall (28) associated with the local area network, wherein the NAT functionality is suitable to translate the source port of outgoing data packets with a NAT port value obtained by adding to a NAT offset value the value of the session ID used in a session database. When reply data packets coming from the wide area network are received by the firewall, the session ID is extracted from the NAT port value and is used for directly pointing to the session database, thus reducing the time required to recognize the session.

Original languageEnglish
Patent numberWO2007076883
IPCH04L 29/ 06 A I
Priority date30/12/05
StatePublished - 12 Jul 2007

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