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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2017
Seagate Technology Llc, Cupertino, CA (US);
Muhammad Jawad Alam Wahla, Singapore, SG;
Nino Wicaksono, Singapore, SG;
Meherzad Firoze Aga, Longmont, CO (US);
Monty Aaron Forehand, Loveland, CO (US);
Abstract
Apparatus and method for distributed authentication in a data storage system using block chain technology. In some embodiments, a requested transaction is generated to perform a selected security operation upon a data processing device in a computer network. The requested transaction is validated and propagated to a plurality of nodes. The nodes use a consensus mechanism to quasi-randomly select a particular node to generate a new block listing the requested transaction. The new block is validated, propagated among the plurality of nodes, and added to a block chain data structure. A processing node processes the requested transaction from the block chain data structure to authorize the selected security operation. Credits may be debited and credited between requesting nodes and the processing node for each transaction. Different types of credits may be used for different types of security operations.