Sandisk Technologies Inc.

Yuval Yoskovits

Yan Dumchin

Tzvi Alon

A storage device includes multiple memory dies and a controller configured to: (i) encrypt a data block using a key schedule that includes a plurality of round keys generated from an encryption key, the encrypting resulting in an encrypted data block; (ii) during the encrypting, modify a key register during a first plurality of iterations, the key register being updated to a final state of the key register after a final iteration of the plurality of iterations; (iii) store the final state of the key register as a decryption key; and (iv) decrypt the encrypted data block using another key schedule that includes the plurality of round keys that are generated using the decryption key during a second plurality of iterations.

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Tel Aviv, Israel

Yuval Yoskovits