Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Basil Cherian

Ramarathnam R Venkatesan

Panagiotis Antonopoulos

Nishanth Chandran

Srinath T V Setty

Daniel John Carroll, Jr

Jason Sydney Barnwell

Embodiments described herein enable at least one of a plurality of entities to access data protected by a security policy in response to validating respective digital access requests from the entities. The respective digital access requests are received, each comprising a proof. For each request, an encrypted secret share is obtained from a respective ledger database. Each request is validated based at least on the respective encrypted secret share and the proof, without decrypting the respective encrypted secret share. In response to validating all of the requests, a verification that an access criteria of a security policy is met is made. If so, at least one of the entities is provided with access to data protected by the security policy. In an aspect, embodiments enable a blind subpoena to be performed. In another aspect, embodiments enable the at least one entity to access the data for an isolated purpose.

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