International Business Machines Corporation

Jagadeesh Sreeram

Liviu Rodean

Akhil Sivanantha

A method, system and computer-usable medium for preventing a single point of failure in accessing encrypted data. In certain embodiments passwords of multiple system administrators are encrypted with a master key to generate encrypted master keys respectively associated with each system administrator. In certain embodiments, the passwords of the multiple system administrators are also one-way hashed to generate multiple one-way hashed passwords respectively associated with each system administrator. In certain embodiments, the user identifiers and plain text passwords may be used to decrypt the master key based on the encrypted master keys and one-way hashed passwords.

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Jagadeesh Sreeram