US Patent 9923923 Secure transport channel using multiple cipher suites

Cipher suites and/or other parameters for cryptographic protection of communications are dynamically selected to more closely match the intended uses of the sessions. A server selects and/or determines, for a cryptographically protected communications session, a plurality of supported cipher suites that may be used for communications with the server over an established protected communications session. A selected cipher suites may be a cipher suite that are selected from a plurality of acceptable cipher suites provided to the server, either implicitly or explicitly. The selection of a cipher suite may further require that the cipher suite be mutually acceptable to the server and one or more parties participating in the cryptographically protected communications session such as a client.