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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2019
Applicant:
British Telecommunications Public Limited Company, London, GB;
Inventors:
George Kallos, London, GB;
Fadi Ali El-Moussa, London, GB;
Assignee:
British Telecommunications Public Limited Company, London, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/56 (2013.01); G06F 21/60 (2013.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01); H04L 9/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/568 (2013.01); G06F 21/561 (2013.01); G06F 21/564 (2013.01); G06F 21/566 (2013.01); G06F 21/602 (2013.01); G06F 21/6218 (2013.01);
Abstract
A computer implemented method for decrypting an encrypted data store at a target computer system, the data store being encrypted by a ransomware algorithm using a searchable encryption algorithm, the method including determining an encryption algorithm used by the ransomware algorithm; determining seed parameters used by the encryption algorithm to generate an encryption key; generating the encryption key using the seed parameters; and decrypting the encrypted data store.