Entrust Corporation

Thomas P Chmara

Serge Jean Maurice Mister

Michael Ounsworth

Lucas J Koops

Jon Ferguson

Chad Autry

Andrew Assaly

Xavier Guarch

A configuration information management system is provided for secure update of dynamic configuration data in a containerized execution environment. A configuration container may be maintained within the environment separately from an application container hosting a secure enterprise application. The secure enterprise application may require secure configuration information for interaction via a secured connection with one or more remote endpoints from within the application container. The configuration container hosts a service that is configured to maintain the secure configuration information on behalf of the secure enterprise application, allowing the secure enterprise application to not persist secure configuration information within the application container.

Secure update of dynamic configuration in containerized execution environment

One or more computing devices employs a method that includes requesting a transient credential (e.g., a one-time PKI certificate) as a first identity credential for an application component instance based on a unique identifier associated with the application component instance. The method includes requesting a dynamically-created second identity credential for the application component instance of the application using a request signed (e.g., using the public key of the first identity PKI certificate) based on the transient credential. The method includes receiving the dynamically-created second identity credential and using the dynamically-created second identity credential in a cryptographic function by the application component instance; and managing the replacement of this credential in environments without persistent archival storage accessible by the device/application.

Identity management for software components

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Thomas P Chmara