Dell Products Inc.

Karthik Arunachalam

Sanjeev Dambal

Vigneswaran Ponnusamy

Karthikeyan Rajagopalan

Kumaran Palaniappan

Kumaran Palaniappan Thangavelu

A disclosed method for managing encryption keys, which may be performed by a key management server, responds to receiving, from a first client, a request to create a new key for a self-encrypting drive (SED) associated with the first client by retrieving unique identifiers of the first client and the SED, generating and storing the new key and a corresponding key identifier (KeyID), and associating the unique identifiers of the SED and first client with the new key. Upon receiving, from a second client, a locate key request that includes the SED identifier, providing the new key, the KeyID, and the first client identifier to the second client. Associating the SED and first client identifiers with the new key may include adding the identifiers as attributes of the KeyID. Embodiments may be implemented in accordance with a key management interoperability protocol (KMIP) standard.

Managing migration of self encrypted drive within a single key management system user group

An information handling system may include a processor and a management controller communicatively coupled to the processor. The management controller may be configured to, in response to an encrypted storage resource being coupled to the information handling system: transmitting a request to at least one other management controller for an encryption key associated with the encrypted storage resource; receiving a response from the at least one other management controller, the response including the encryption key associated with the encrypted storage resource; and unlocking the encrypted storage resource with the received encryption key.

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Round Rock, TX, United States of America

Karthik Arunachalam