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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2019
Alibaba Group Holding Limited, George Town, KY;
Changzheng Wei, Hangzhou, CN;
Ying Yan, Hangzhou, CN;
Boran Zhao, Hangzhou, CN;
Xuyang Song, Hangzhou, CN;
Alibaba Group Holding Limited, George Town, Grand Cayman, KY;
Abstract
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and apparatus, for securely executing smart contract operations in a trusted execution environment (TEE). One of the methods includes establishing, by a key management (KM) TEE of a KM node, a trust relationship with a plurality of KM TEEs in a plurality of KM nodes based on performing mutual attestations with the plurality of KM TEEs; initiating a consensus process with the plurality of KM TEEs for reaching consensus on providing one or more encryption keys to a service TEE of the KM node; in response to reaching the consensus with the plurality of KM TEEs, initiating a local attestation process with a service TEE in the KM node; determining that the local attestation process is successful; and in response to determining that the local attestation process is successful, providing one or more encryption keys to the TEE executing on the computing device.