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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2023
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for secure cryptographic secret bootstrapping balance the need to quickly and conveniently restore cryptographic secrets to server computers in the event of an outage with the need for security. Before the outage, a server computer uses a trusted platform module of the server computer to seal an encryption key used to encrypt a secret stored at the server computer. In response to the outage, the server computer restores the secret by using the trusted platform module to unseal the encryption key and then using the unsealed encryption key to decrypt the encrypted secret. The techniques can be used to restore cryptographic secrets rapidly and securely to a cluster of server computers used for cryptographic operations in a provider network without the overhead of safe room procedures.