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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 14, 2010
Henry R. Hutton, Tracy, CA (US);
Henry R. Hutton, Tracy, CA (US);
SanDisk Technologies Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
A storage device and method for providing a partially-encrypted content file to a host device are provided. In one embodiment, the storage device retrieves a content file from memory in the storage device and partially-encrypts the content file by encrypting some portions of the content file. The storage device sends the partially-encrypted content file to a host device and informs the host device of which portions of the partially-encrypted content file are encrypted. In one embodiment, the remaining portions of the content file are in clear text form and do not need to be decrypted. Because the host device only needs to decrypt the portions of the content file that are encrypted—and not the entire content file—the host device can decrypt the partially-encrypted content file, even if it does not have the processing power to decrypt a fully-encrypted version. In another embodiment, at least some of the remaining portions of the content file are encrypted with at least one additional key.