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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 10, 2021
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Jacob Lee Sheppard, Corona De Tucson, AZ (US);
Samantha A. Utter, Tucson, AZ (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for sharing data encryption keys among a plurality of storage systems is disclosed. The method generates, by a first storage system, a data encryption key for encrypting data sent from the first storage system to cloud storage. The method stores the encrypted data in the cloud storage in the form of an encrypted data object. In certain embodiments, the first storage system stores an Internet Protocol (IP) address of a second storage system belonging to a same key sharing network as the first storage system. The method replicates, from the first storage system to the second storage system, the data encryption key. The second storage system retrieves the encrypted data object from the cloud storage and decrypts the encrypted data in the encrypted data object using the data encryption key received from the first storage system.