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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2014
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ilya Sokolov, Boston, MA (US);
Brian Powell, El Segundo, CA (US);
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
The disclosed computer-implemented method for securely accessing encrypted data stores may include (1) receiving, from a data storage service, a request to permit authenticated access to an encrypted data store administered by the data storage service, the request including a cryptographic element associated with the encrypted data store that has been encrypted using a public key associated with the authentication device, (2) decrypting the cryptographic element associated with the encrypted data store using a private key associated with the authentication device, (3) encrypting the cryptographic element associated with the encrypted data store using a public key associated with a cryptographic client, and (4) transmitting the encrypted cryptographic element to the cryptographic client to enable the cryptographic client to perform cryptographic operations on the encrypted data store. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.