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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2017
Filed:
May. 28, 2015
Cavium, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Phanikumar Kancharla, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ram Kumar Manapragada, Hyderabad, IN;
CAVIUM, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A new approach is proposed to support secured hardware security module (HSM) backup for a plurality of web services hosted in a cloud to offload their key storage, management, and crypto operations to the HSM. Each HSM is a high-performance, FIPS 140-compliant security solution for crypto acceleration of the web services. Each HSM includes multiple partitions isolated from each other, where each HSM partition is dedicated to support one of the web service hosts/servers to offload its crypto operations via a HSM virtual machine (VM) over the network. The HSM-VM is configured to export objects from the key store of a first HSM partition to a key store of a second HSM partition, wherein the second HSM partition is configured to serve the key management and crypto operations offloaded from the web service host once the objects exported from the key store of the first HSM partition are received.