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Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2015

Filed:

Mar. 13, 2013
Applicant:

Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventor:

Walter Bogorad, Danville, CA (US);

Assignee:

Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/30 (2006.01); H04L 9/14 (2006.01); G06F 21/60 (2013.01); H04L 9/08 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/602 (2013.01); H04L 9/0822 (2013.01); H04L 9/14 (2013.01); H04L 63/10 (2013.01); H04L 63/06 (2013.01); H04L 9/0894 (2013.01);
Abstract

A computer-implemented method for secure third-party data storage may include 1) identifying, at a server-side computing device, a request from a client system to access an encrypted file stored under a user account, 2) identifying, in response to the request, an asymmetric key pair designated for the user account that includes an encryption key and a decryption key that has been encrypted with a client-side key, 3) receiving, from the client system, the client-side key, 4) decrypting the decryption key with the client-side key, and 5) using the decryption key to access an unencrypted version of the encrypted file. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.


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