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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2020
Filed:
May. 22, 2017
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Tolga Acar, Sammamish, WA (US);
Malcolm Erik Pearson, Kirkland, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for implementing high integrity logs for distributed software services are provided. According to one set of embodiments, a key management service running on a key server can maintain a secret master key. The key management service can further generate, for each of a plurality of distributed software service instances, a service key that is unique to a current lifecycle of the software service instance, the generating being based on the master key; and transmit the service key to the software service instance, where the service key is used by the software service instance in creating a high integrity log.