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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 02, 2008
Praveen Patnala, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Anand Parthasarathy, Fremont, CA (US);
Makarand Deshmukh, Cupertino, CA (US);
Praveen Patnala, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Anand Parthasarathy, Fremont, CA (US);
Makarand Deshmukh, Cupertino, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
An encryption key management system is provided for storage area network devices. A create key request is received at a storage area network switch. The key is created at the storage area network switch and the created key request is transmitted to a key management center. The key object is stored in the key management center and includes a unique identifier, an encrypted key, a wrapper unique identifier, and a key entity. The encrypted key can later be decrypted to generate a decrypted key. The encrypted key is decrypted using keying material accessed using the wrapper unique identifier that identifies another key object.