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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2019
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Radia Joy Perlman, Redmond, WA (US);
Charles William Kaufman, Redmond, WA (US);
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
In general, embodiments of the invention relates to a method for managing data, the method includes obtaining, by an untrusted device and from a querying system, an item query, identifying a leaf block of a hierarchical block tree associated with the item query, identifying a plurality of indirect blocks that allow the querying system to calculate a top hash of the hierarchical block tree, and sending an item query response to the querying system, wherein the item query response specifies the leaf block, the plurality of indirect hashes corresponding to the plurality of indirect blocks, and a signature of the top hash, wherein the signature is obtained from a trusted system.