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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2022
Filed:
Jul. 01, 2020
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Eysha Shirrine Powers, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Michael Joseph Jordan, Woodstock, NY (US);
Cecilia Carranza Lewis, San Jose, CA (US);
Eric David Rossman, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);
International Business machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Generating unique data encryption keys for a data set, by allocating a data set associated with a security policy, where the security policy specifies a key encryption key (KEK) label, retrieving the KEK label from the security policy, storing the KEK label as metadata of the data set, opening the data set for a first time write, generating a data encryption key (DEK), retrieving a KEK from a key store according to the KEK label, encrypting the DEK using the KEK, storing the encrypted DEK as metadata of the data set, and encrypting the data set using the DEK.