Vmware, Inc.

Christian Lita

Benjamin J Corrie

George Gregory Hicken

Perron Jones

Yijia Zhao

Michal Adam Jankowski

Edward Burns

This disclosure describes a process for securely instantiating a virtual machine on a server cluster. The virtual machine just after instantiation has access to persistent storage that includes an encrypted region and lacks access to an encryption key configured to provide access to data stored within the encrypted region. The virtual machine receives a communication from a management server associated with the server cluster that includes the encryption key configured to provide access to the data stored within the encrypted region. After the virtual machine receives the encryption key, the server cluster runs services that depend upon the data stored within the encrypted region to operate after receiving the communication from the management server.

Protection of authentication data of a server cluster

A network environment is described for securely storing data for anonymized contact tracing while an application is executing in a background state. An application can receive a message containing data while the application is executing in a background state. The data is encrypted using a public key. Next, the application can store the encrypted data in an alternate data store. Subsequently, and upon user authentication, the application can decrypt a secure data store decrypt the encrypted data. The application can then store the decrypted data in the decrypted secure data store. The application can receive user input indicating a positive test result for a communicable disease with an incubation period, and anonymously upload the data stripped of any uniquely identifying information.

Secure data storage for anonymized contact tracing

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Christian Lita