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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 24, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 21, 2014
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Todd Lawrence Cignetti, Ashburn, VA (US);
Andrew Jeffrey Doane, Vienna, VA (US);
Stefan Popoveniuc, Alexandria, VA (US);
Matthew Allen Estes, Herndon, VA (US);
Alexander Edward Schoof, Herndon, VA (US);
Robert Eric Fitzgerald, Herndon, VA (US);
Peter Zachary Bowen, Bainbridge Island, WA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for renewing cryptographic material are disclosed. In the method and apparatus a cryptographic material renewal entity of a computing resource service provider detects that cryptographic material stored by a secure module is to be renewed. Renewing the cryptographic material may include rekeying a private key associated with a certificate. Further, a digital certificate may be renewed, and the renewed certificate may be provided for use by the computing resource. The cryptographic material is used to fulfill requests made by a computing resource provisioned by the computing resource service provider for a customer. The renewed cryptographic material is provided to the secure module, whereby the renewed cryptographic material is used by the secure module to fulfill further requests made by the computing resource.