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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2023
Filed:
Jun. 02, 2021
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/08 (2006.01); H04L 9/06 (2006.01); H04L 9/00 (2022.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/085 (2013.01); H04L 9/0656 (2013.01); H04L 9/0825 (2013.01); H04L 9/0894 (2013.01); H04L 9/50 (2022.05); H04L 63/0428 (2013.01); H04L 63/068 (2013.01);
Abstract
An example operation may include one or more of encrypting content via an encryption key to generate encrypted content, storing the encrypted content via a distributed ledger, splitting the encrypted encryption key into a set of key shares via a threshold secret sharing scheme, and distributing the set of key shares among a plurality of nodes of a distributed vault, where each key share is distributed with an expiry value that identifies when the respective key share is to be deleted by a node.