Encrypting Data In A Storage Device

Abstract: data protection in a storage system that includes a plurality of non-volatile memory express (‘nvme’) solid state drives (‘ssds’), including: retrieving, from a plurality of nvme ssds (‘non-volatile memory express solid state drives’) of a storage system, one or more unencrypted shares of a master secret; reconstructing the master secret using the shares of the master secret; decrypting one or more encrypted device keys using the master secret; and using the decrypted device keys to perform a plurality of accesses to one or more of the nvme ssds.

Inventor(s): ANDREW BERNAT, TIMOTHY BRENNAN, ETHAN MILLER, JOHN COLGROVE

CPC Classification: H04L63/061 ({for key exchange, e.g. in peer-to-peer networks (cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for key agreement )})

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