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US 2013/0086313 A1Published application
Methods to securely bind an encryption key to a storage device
OwnerRichard P. Mangold, Debra Hensgen +1inventors
InventorsRichard P. Mangold, Debra Hensgen, Sanjeev N. Trika
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Abstract
Embodiments of methods to securely bind a disk cache encryption key to a cache device are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
Claims18
A method comprising:
- determining, in a processing system, a disk status of a hard disk drive arranged to cache data to a solid-state drive cache system;
- reading a cache key from a disk location in the hard disk drive when the disk status is unlocked;
- unlocking the solid-state drive cache system using the cache key;
- and
- executing a boot sequence in the processing system.
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At least one machine readable medium comprising a plurality of instructions that in response to being executed on a system cause the system to:
- determine, in a processing system, a disk status of a hard disk drive arranged to cache data to a solid-state drive cache system;
- read a cache key from a disk location in the hard disk drive when the disk status is unlocked;
- unlock the solid-state drive cache system using the cache key;
- and
- execute a boot sequence in the processing system.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.