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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 26, 2012
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Vladimir Sadovsky, Redmond, WA (US);
Sompong Paul Olarig, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Chris Lionetti, Duvall, WA (US);
James Robert Hamilton, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
An access control device can be communicationally coupled to a storage device and can control access thereto. The access control device can comprise information, such as identities of authorized entities, to enable the access control device to independently determine whether to provide access to an associated storage device. Alternatively, the access control device can comprise information to establish a secure connection to an authorization computing device and the access control device can implement the decisions of the authorization computing device. The access control device can control access by instructing a storage device to execute specific firmware instructions to prevent meaningful responses to data storage related requests. The access control device can also comprise storage-related cryptographic information utilized by the storage device to encrypt and decrypt data. In such a case, the access control device can control access by not releasing the storage-related cryptographic information to the storage device.