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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 26, 2019
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Todd Lawrence Cignetti, Ashburn, VA (US);
Andrew Jeffrey Doane, Vienna, VA (US);
Stefan Popoveniuc, Alexandria, VA (US);
Matthew Allen Estes, Herndon, VA (US);
Alexander Edward Schoof, Herndon, VA (US);
Robert Eric Fitzgerald, Herndon, VA (US);
Peter Zachary Bowen, Bainbridge Island, WA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for distributing cryptographic material are disclosed. In the method and apparatus, cryptographic material is obtained and it is determined that the cryptographic material is to be made available for use by one or more computing resources. The cryptographic material is then sent to one or more secure modules, whereby a secure module of the one or more secure modules is programmatically accessible to a computing resource of the one or more computing resources and programmatic access enables the computing resource to request performance of one or more cryptographic operations using the cryptographic material while exporting the cryptographic material to the computing resource is denied.