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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 18, 2014
Marvell World Trade Ltd., St. Michael, BB;
Pontus Lidman, Saratoga, CA (US);
MARVELL WORLD TRADE LLC, , BB;
Abstract
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with rotating keys for a memory are described. According to one embodiment, a memory system comprises a memory controller configured to control access to a memory and to process memory access requests. Rekeying logic is configured to rotate a first key that was used to scramble data in the memory and re-scramble the data with a second key by: determining when the memory controller is in an idle cycle and performing a rekeying operation on a portion of the memory during the idle cycle, and pausing the rekeying operation when the memory controller is not in an idle cycle to allow memory access requests to be performed and resuming the rekeying operation during a next idle cycle.