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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsDaryl Cromer, Richard Cheston, Steven Goodman, Howard Locker, Randall Springfield
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Systems and methods to access password-protected stored data when a corresponding data password has been lost, forgotten, or is otherwise unavailable, and to recover the data password to facilitate access to the password-protected data from a digital memory device such as a hard disk drive associated with a user computer. In some embodiments the computer is communicatively coupled with a network and receives at least one encryption key from a secure computer via the network. In other embodiments the computer is a stand alone computer and receives at least one encryption key from a removable, non-volatile memory such as a CD ROM. The encryption key is used to encrypt the data password and both are stored on the hard disk drive. If the data password becomes lost, forgotten, or otherwise unavailable, the encrypted password is recovered from the hard disk drive and decrypted to recover the data password.
A method for recovering a data password stored in a data storage device, comprising:
An apparatus for recovering a data password, comprising:
A method for recovering a data password used to password-protect data, comprising:
A computer-readable medium containing instructions for recovering a data password used to password-protect data, which, when executed by a computer, cause said computer to perform operations, comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.