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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 22, 2008
Chang-woo Min, Seoul, KR;
Jin-ha Jun, Seoul, KR;
Chang-Woo Min, Seoul, KR;
Jin-Ha Jun, Seoul, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, , KR;
Abstract
A method for preventing a user from interpreting optional stored data information even when the user extracts the optional stored data, and an apparatus thereof. The apparatus for encrypting and processing data in a flash translation layer includes a flash memory and a controller. The flash translation layer searches at least one page of the flash memory storing the data when a write of optional data is requested from the controller, generates, corresponding to respective searched pages, a page key according to a predetermined encrypting function when the searched page supports an encryption, and encrypts and stores the data by the page key in the respective searched pages.