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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 10, 2010
Amy Christine Nelson, Round Rock, TX (US);
Brian Decker, Round Rock, TX (US);
Kenneth W. Stufflebeam, Jr., Georgetown, TX (US);
Marc D. Alexander, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Amy Christine Nelson, Round Rock, TX (US);
Brian Decker, Round Rock, TX (US);
Kenneth W. Stufflebeam, Jr., Georgetown, TX (US);
Marc D. Alexander, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for reducing problems and disadvantages associated with traditional approaches to encryption and decryption of data are provided. An information handling system may include a processor, a memory communicatively coupled to the processor, an encryption accelerator communicatively coupled to the processor, and a computer-readable medium communicatively coupled to the processor. The encryption accelerator may be configured to encrypt or decrypt data in response to a command from the processor to perform an encryption or decryption task upon data associated with an input/output operation. The computer-readable medium may have instructions stored thereon, the instructions configured to, when executed by the processor: (i) monitor for input/output operations occurring prior to loading of an operating system into the memory; and (ii) in response to detection of an input/output operation, communicate a command to the encryption accelerator to perform an encryption or decryption task upon data associated with an input/output operation.