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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2013
Emc Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Ian B. Farquhar, Glenwood, AU;
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
Methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture for key management in full disk and file-level encryption are provided herein. A method includes fetching a distinct cryptographic key from a secure module in connection with a request to perform one of a decryption operation and an encryption operation on at least one of an individual file and an individual sector within a storage device on a computing device; using the distinct cryptographic key to perform the one of a decryption operation and an encryption operation on the at least one of an individual file and an individual sector within the storage device on the computing device; and discarding the distinct cryptographic key subsequent to said performing the one of a decryption operation and an encryption operation on at least one of an individual file and an individual sector within the storage device on the computing device.