18960878. CRYPTOGRAPHIC KEY MANAGEMENT (Micron Technology, Inc.)

CRYPTOGRAPHIC KEY MANAGEMENT

Organization Name

Micron Technology, Inc.

Inventor(s)

Juane Li of Milpitas CA (US)

Jiangli Zhu of San Jose CA (US)

Ying Yu Tai of Mountain View CA (US)

CRYPTOGRAPHIC KEY MANAGEMENT

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18960878 titled 'CRYPTOGRAPHIC KEY MANAGEMENT

Original Abstract Submitted

Methods, systems, and devices for cryptographic key management are described. A memory device can issue, by a firmware component, a command to generate a first cryptographic key for encrypting or decrypting user data stored on a memory device. The memory device can generate, by a hardware component, the first cryptographic key based on the command. The memory device can encrypt, by the hardware component, the first cryptographic key using a second cryptographic key and an initialization vector. The memory device can store the encrypted first cryptographic key in a nonvolatile memory device separate from the hardware component.