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Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2020

Filed:

Nov. 07, 2016
Applicant:

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Inventors:

Gunneswara Marripudi, Fremont, CA (US);

Ajit Yagaty, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Subramanyam Varanasi, San Francisco, CA (US);

Vishwanath Maram, San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01); G06F 21/31 (2013.01); G06F 21/33 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0622 (2013.01); G06F 3/067 (2013.01); G06F 3/0659 (2013.01); G06F 3/0688 (2013.01); G06F 21/31 (2013.01); G06F 21/33 (2013.01); G06F 21/629 (2013.01); H04L 63/0823 (2013.01); H04L 63/0853 (2013.01); G06F 2221/2101 (2013.01); H04L 63/0272 (2013.01); H04L 63/062 (2013.01); H04L 63/083 (2013.01); H04L 63/166 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method includes: receiving an operational command directed to a solid-state drive (SSD) and a security credential; issuing an asynchronous event from the SSD to an authentication agent including the security credential and a security certificate, wherein the security certificate is encoded based on the security credential and is stored in the SSD; forwarding the security credential and the security certificate from the authentication agent to an authentication server; validating the security certificate based on the security credential at an authentication server; providing a validation response from the authentication server to the authentication agent; forwarding the validation response from the authentication agent to the SSD; and executing the operational command based on the validation response.


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