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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 27, 2023
Filed:
May. 21, 2021
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Nataraj Nagaratnam, Cary, NC (US);
Christopher S. Smith, Tamm, DE;
David Nguyen, Wake Forest, NC (US);
Martin Schmatz, Rueschlikon, CH;
Marco Pavone, Ehningen, DE;
Navaneeth Rameshan, Zurich, CH;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Certificate and key management is provided. A signed certificate corresponding to an enterprise is deployed to a plurality of cryptographic communication protocol endpoint proxies located in a heterogeneous distributed computing environment where a private key corresponding to the enterprise is not placed in any of the plurality of cryptographic communication protocol endpoint proxies. Offload of cryptographic communications from the plurality of cryptographic communication protocol endpoint proxies to the hardware security module is received by the hardware security module where the hardware security module verifies connection authenticity for the plurality of cryptographic communication protocol endpoint proxies across the heterogeneous distributed computing environment using the private key corresponding to the enterprise that remains within a security boundary of the hardware security module.