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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2018
Applicant:
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Inventor:
Ray David Whitmer, Pleasant Grove, UT (US);
Assignee:
EMC CORPORATION, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/62 (2013.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 9/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/6218 (2013.01); H04L 9/083 (2013.01); H04L 9/0822 (2013.01); H04L 63/0428 (2013.01); H04L 2463/062 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems and methods for securing objects in a computing environment. Objects are encrypted using keys that are also encrypted after encrypting the objects. In order to access the objects, a master key that is unknown to the service storing the objects and/or managing the keys is used to decrypt the keys so that the objects can be decrypted with the decrypted key. Thus, a key is needed to access the key needed to access the object. The master key is typically maintained separately from all of the encrypted objects and corresponding encrypted keys.