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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 25, 2011
Filed:
Nov. 14, 2006
Sree Mambakkam Iyer, San Jose, CA (US);
Larry Lawson Jones, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Arockiyaswamy Venkidu, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Santosh Kumar, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Sree Mambakkam Iyer, San Jose, CA (US);
Larry Lawson Jones, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Arockiyaswamy Venkidu, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Santosh Kumar, Santa Clara, CA (US);
MCM Portfolio LLC, Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, method that can be performed on a system, is provided to security implementations for storage devices. In one embodiment, the method comprises providing a separate encryption seed for each of a plurality of separate addressable blocks of a non-volatile storage device, wherein a common encryption method is to encrypt data to be stored on the plurality of separate addressable blocks. In one embodiment, the storage device is a portable storage device. In one embodiment, encryption seed is an Initialization Vector (IV). In one embodiment, the encryption seeds comprise at least one of a media serial number and a logical block address corresponding to the respective block of the non-volatile storage device. In an alternative embodiment, the method further comprises storing at least a part of the separate encryption seed of the separate blocks of the non-volatile storage device within the respective blocks of the storage device.