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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 02, 2018
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Andrew Byrne, Castlemartyr, IE;
Donagh A. Buckley, Banteer, IE;
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A method includes receiving, at a key management system from one or more client devices, one or more requests for cryptographic keys stored in respective clouds of a plurality of cloud service providers in a multi-cloud environment, the cryptographic keys being distributed across different ones of the respective clouds of the plurality of cloud service providers in the multi-cloud environment. The method also includes determining a location of a given one of the requested cryptographic keys on one or more of the clouds of the cloud service providers in the multi-cloud environment, retrieving the given cryptographic key from the determined location in the multi-cloud environment, providing the given cryptographic key to a given one of the client devices, and shuffling the distribution of the cryptographic keys across the clouds of the plurality of cloud service providers in the multi-cloud environment.