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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2021
Filed:
May. 19, 2017
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Andy Ness, Redmond, WA (US);
Catherine Amy McDonald, Redmond, WA (US);
Jeffrey E. Steinbok, Redmond, WA (US);
Prajakta Sudhir Samant, Redmond, WA (US);
Tyler Pennington, Redmond, WA (US);
Nicola Alfeo, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The techniques discussed herein relate to providing a highly available and reliable secret distribution infrastructure. In an implementation, a key master service (KMS) system is disclosed. The KMS system includes one or more computer readable storage media having program instructions stored thereon which, when executed by one or more processing systems, direct the one or more processing systems to identify a hydration event and, responsive to the hydration event, determine if other KMS systems are running in a secret distribution infrastructure. The program instructions, when executed by one or more processing systems, further direct the KMS system to hydrate the KMS system with secret information obtained from the one or more of the other KMS systems when the other KMS systems are running in the secret distribution infrastructure.