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US 2009/0290708 A1Published application
Generating and Securing Archive Keys
AssigneeRed Hat, Inc.
InventorJames Paul Schneider
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Abstract
Described herein is a method and apparatus for managing archives. The archive management process receives a passphrase and an indicator of an archive to be managed. The passphrase is used to encipher or decipher an archive key dependent on whether data is to be inserted or extracted from the archive key. The passphrase can be changed by re-enciphering the archive key.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- receiving a passphrase;
- obtaining a cipher key and an archive key;
- enciphering the passphrase using the cipher key to generate an enciphered passphrase;
- enciphering an archive with the archive key;
- and
- enciphering the archive key using the enciphered passphrase.
3 more elements
A computer readable storage medium, having instructions stored therein, which when executed, cause a computer to perform a set of operations comprising:
- receiving a passphrase;
- obtaining a cipher key and an archive key;
- enciphering the passphrase using the cipher key to generate an enciphered passphrase;
- enciphering an archive with the archive key;
- and
- enciphering the archive key using the enciphered passphrase.
3 more elements
A system comprising:
- a computer having a persistent storage device, the computer including,
- an archive management module to manage the storage of data in an archive on a persistent storage device, and
- a cipher module coupled to the archive management module to encipher the archive using an archive key and to encipher the archive key using a passphrase.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.