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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 02, 2018
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Jason K. Resch, Chicago, IL (US);
Hugo M. Krawczyk, Tarrytown, NY (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A computing device includes an interface configured to interface and communicate with a communication system, a memory that stores operational instructions, and processing circuitry operably coupled to the interface and to the memory that is configured to execute the operational instructions to perform various operations. The computing device processes an input value in accordance with a Threshold Partially-Oblivious Pseudorandom Function (TP-OPRF) blinding operation to generate a blinded input. The computing device then selects a threshold number of shareholder computing devices that are associated with a Key Management System (KMS) service and transmits the blinded input to them. The computing device then receives at least a threshold number of blinded output components from at least some of the shareholder computing devices and processes them to generate a blinded output. The computing device then processes the blinded output in accordance with a TP-OPRF unblinding operation to generate a key.