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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 19, 2023
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Volker Urban, Böblingen, DE;
Tamas Visegrady, Zurich, CH;
Reinhard Theodor Buendgen, Tuebingen, DE;
Michael D. Hocker, Staatsburg, NY (US);
Eric David Rossman, Hopewell Junction, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for establishing identity-based hierarchical sessions on a hardware security module (HSM) for binding secure keys to a guest system, is disclosed. The present invention may include establishing a communication channel between the guest system and the HSM, wherein the communication channel is identity-based, end-to-end and encrypted, thereby establishing a session, transferring login information of the guest system through the communication channel to the HSM, maintaining a predefined security level throughout a hierarchy of the sessions, wherein no child session has a higher security level than its parent session, and performing a challenge-response protocol based on a session ownership verification with the guest, such that an HSM generated and secured key is bound to a related session.