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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 24, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 10, 2017
Nicira, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jianqing Zhang, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ganesan Chandrashekhar, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Sonia Jahid, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Amit Vasant Patil, Pune, IN;
Sujatha Sundararaman, Palo Alto, CA (US);
NICIRA, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A distributed computer system and method for managing secret information for virtual entities in the distributed computer system utilizes multiple secret storage service entities to provide secret information to a virtual entity to be hosted in a host computer in the distributed computer system. At least one piece of the secret information for the virtual entity is distributed to the multiple secret storage service entities to provide the secret information to the virtual entity using the at least one piece of the secret information from one of the multiple secret storage service entities.