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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2015

Filed:

Dec. 19, 2013
Applicant:

Sandisk Enterprise Ip Llc, Milpitas, CA (US);

Inventors:

Jacob Schmier, Gilbert, AZ (US);

Mark Dancho, Chandler, AZ (US);

Ryan Jones, Mesa, AZ (US);

Assignee:

SANDISK ENTERPRISE IP LLC, Milpitas, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/00 (2013.01); G06F 12/14 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 21/60 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/1408 (2013.01); G06F 3/0623 (2013.01); G06F 3/0653 (2013.01); G06F 3/0673 (2013.01); G06F 21/60 (2013.01);
Abstract

The various implementations described herein include systems, methods and/or devices used to enable power failure tolerant cryptographic erasure in a storage device having a first encryption key established as a current encryption key. The method includes performing a set of first stage operations including selecting first and second sets of memory blocks and obtaining a second encryption key. The method includes performing a set of second stage operations including storing, in the first set of memory blocks, first and second sets of metadata, encrypted using the second encryption key. The method includes performing a set of third stage operations, including storing, in the second set of memory blocks, the second set of metadata encrypted using the second encryption key. The method includes setting the second encryption key as the current encryption key for the plurality of memory blocks.


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