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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 26, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 04, 2007
Applicant:
Rajamohan Gandhasri, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventor:
Rajamohan Gandhasri, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
NetApp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04K 1/00 (2006.01); H04L 9/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/08 (2013.01); H04L 9/0891 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system and method for re-keying ciphertext on a storage system is resident on a host/client communicating with a storage system. The generation of encryption keys and tracking which storage system blocks are encrypted with what keys remain with the security appliance or storage system, but the policy governing re-keying and initiating actions in accordance with that policy reside with the client/host.