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- Patent Title: Proof-of-work key wrapping with integrated key fragments
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Application No.: US16544626Application Date: 2019-08-19
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Publication No.: US11411938B2Publication Date: 2022-08-09
- Inventor: Michael Hingston Mclaughlin Bursell , Nathaniel Philip McCallum , Peter M. Jones , John David Strunk
- Applicant: Red Hat, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US NC Raleigh
- Assignee: Red Hat, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Red Hat, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US NC Raleigh
- Agency: Lowenstein Sandler LLP
- Main IPC: H04L9/40
- IPC: H04L9/40 ; H04L9/08 ; H04L9/14

Abstract:
The technology disclosed herein provides a proof-of-work key wrapping system that uses integrated key fragments to cryptographically control access to data. An example method may include encrypting a first cryptographic key to produce a wrapped key, wherein the first cryptographic key enables a computing device to access content; determining a plurality of key fragments of a second cryptographic key, wherein the second cryptographic key is for decrypting the wrapped key and at least one of the plurality of key fragments is derived using one of the key fragments as input; selecting a set of cryptographic attributes for deriving the plurality of key fragments, wherein the set of cryptographic attributes are selected in view of a characteristic of the computing device; and providing the wrapped key and the set of cryptographic attributes to the computing device, the set of cryptographic attributes facilitating determination of the second cryptographic key.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210058379A1 PROOF-OF-WORK KEY WRAPPING WITH INTEGRATED KEY FRAGMENTS Public/Granted day:2021-02-25
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