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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 14, 2012
Applicant:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Inventors:
Bo-Gyeong Kang, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Ji-Soo Kim, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/00 (2006.01); H04L 9/08 (2006.01); H04L 9/32 (2006.01); G06F 21/78 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/0894 (2013.01); H04L 9/3271 (2013.01); G06F 21/78 (2013.01); G06F 2221/2107 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for protecting content of a storage device including a memory for storing data and a controller for managing data input and output of the memory is provided, in which a Data Encryption Key (DEK) for encrypting the data stored in the memory is generated, an IDentifier (ID) of the memory is acquired, the DEK is encrypted using user secret information and the ID of the memory, and the encrypted DEK is stored in the memory.