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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 18, 2019
Applicant:
Cloudflare, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Inventor:
Nicholas Thomas Sullivan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
CLOUDFLARE, INC., San Francisco, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/32 (2006.01); G06F 21/45 (2013.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 9/08 (2006.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01); G06F 21/31 (2013.01); G06F 21/60 (2013.01); G06F 21/40 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/3226 (2013.01); G06F 21/31 (2013.01); G06F 21/40 (2013.01); G06F 21/45 (2013.01); G06F 21/60 (2013.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01); G06F 21/6209 (2013.01); H04L 9/085 (2013.01); H04L 9/0822 (2013.01); H04L 9/0861 (2013.01); H04L 9/0863 (2013.01); H04L 63/0435 (2013.01); H04L 63/0478 (2013.01); H04L 63/065 (2013.01); H04L 63/08 (2013.01); H04L 63/10 (2013.01); H04L 63/104 (2013.01); G06F 2221/2147 (2013.01); H04L 2463/062 (2013.01);
Abstract
A server receives a piece of data for encryption. The server encrypts the piece of data such that no single key can decrypt the encrypted piece of data and any combination of a first multiple of unique keys taken a second multiple at a time are capable of decrypting the encrypted piece of data. Each of the first multiple of unique keys is tied to account credentials of a different user. The second multiple is less than or equal to the first multiple. The encrypted piece of data is returned.