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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2025

Filed:

Nov. 24, 2020
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Yacov Manevich, Haifa, IL;

Nitin Gaur, Roundrock, TX (US);

Dulce B. Ponceleon, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Petr Novotny, Mount Kisco, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 9/06 (2006.01); H04L 9/08 (2006.01); H04L 9/14 (2006.01); H04L 9/00 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/0894 (2013.01); H04L 9/0637 (2013.01); H04L 9/085 (2013.01); H04L 9/0863 (2013.01); H04L 9/0891 (2013.01); H04L 9/14 (2013.01); H04L 9/50 (2022.05);
Abstract

An example operation may include one or more of encrypting a private key with an encryption key, generating a plurality of keys based on the encryption key and converting the plurality of keys into a plurality of key shares based on a secret input value, storing the encrypted private key on a blockchain, and distributing the plurality of key shares to a plurality of blockchain peers of the blockchain, where the distributing comprises transmitting a different key share from among the plurality of key shares to each blockchain peer among the plurality of blockchain peers.


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