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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 2021

Filed:

Dec. 24, 2018
Applicant:

Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Ilya Sokolov, Boston, MA (US);

Lei Gu, Bedford, MA (US);

Daniel Kats, Culver City, CA (US);

Assignee:

NortonLifeLock Inc., Tempe, AZ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/08 (2006.01); H04L 9/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/0894 (2013.01); H04L 9/085 (2013.01); H04L 9/0861 (2013.01); H04L 9/14 (2013.01); H04L 2209/38 (2013.01);
Abstract

The disclosed computer-implemented method for crowd-storing encryption keys may include (i) sending, from a client computing device and to a server, a recovery request, (ii) creating a first public-private key pair, (iii) receiving a plurality of encrypted shares of an encryption key from the server in response to the recovery request, where the encrypted shares are encrypted with a first public key of the first public-private key pair, and (iv) performing a security action including (A) decrypting the plurality of encrypted shares of the encryption key with a first private key of the first public-private key pair and (B) recovering the encryption key from the decrypted plurality of shares of the encryption key. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.


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