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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2011
Octavian T. Ureche, Renton, WA (US);
Innokentiy Basmov, Redmond, WA (US);
Grigory B. Lyakhovitskiy, Bothell, WA (US);
Stefen Thom, Snohomish, WA (US);
Octavian T. Ureche, Renton, WA (US);
Innokentiy Basmov, Redmond, WA (US);
Grigory B. Lyakhovitskiy, Bothell, WA (US);
Stefen Thom, Snohomish, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Cryptographic keys and, subsequently, the data they are intended to protect, are safeguarded from unwarranted attacks utilizing various systems and methodologies designed to minimize the time period in which meaningful versions of cryptographic keys exist in accessible memory, and therefore, are vulnerable. Cryptographic keys, and consequently the data they are intended to protect, can alternatively, or also, be protected from attackers utilizing systems and a methodology that employs a removable storage device for providing authentication factors used in the encryption and decryption processing. Cryptographic keys and protected data can alternatively, or also, be protected with a system and methodology that supports data separation on the storage device(s) of a computing device. Cryptographic keys and the data they are intended to protect can alternatively, or also, be protected employing a system and methodology of virtual compartmentalization that effectively segregates key management from protected data.