US 2018/0123791 A1 · HIGHLY AVAILABLE AND RELIABLE SECRET DISTRIBUTION INFRASTRUCTURE

Abstract

The techniques discussed herein relate to providing a highly available and reliable secret distribution infrastructure. In an implementation, a key master service (KMS) system is disclosed. The KMS system includes one or more computer readable storage media having program instructions stored thereon which, when executed by one or more processing systems, direct the one or more processing systems to identify a hydration event and, responsive to the hydration event, determine if other KMS systems are running in a secret distribution infrastructure. The program instructions, when executed by one or more processing systems, further direct the KMS system to hydrate the KMS system with secret information obtained from the one or more of the other KMS systems when the other KMS systems are running in the secret distribution infrastructure.

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Dependent claims

A key master service (KMS) system comprising:

one or more computer readable storage media;
and
program instructions stored on the one or more computer readable storage media, wherein the program instructions, when executed by one or more processing systems, direct the one or more processing systems to:
identify a hydration event;
responsive to the hydration event, determine if other KMS systems are running in a secret distribution infrastructure;
and
when the other KMS systems are running in the secret distribution infrastructure, hydrate the KMS system with secret information obtained from one or more of the other KMS systems.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

15/600,040Filed 19 May 2017

Priority

28 Oct 2016

Published

3 May 2018

Term ends

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Classification24 codes

H04L 9/0897
Escrow, recovery or storing of secret information, e.g. secret key escrow or cryptographic key storage: involving additional devices, e.g. trusted…
H04L 9/0827
Key transport or distribution, i.e. key establishment techniques where one party creates or otherwise obtains a secret value, and securely…:…
H04L 9/083
Key transport or distribution, i.e. key establishment techniques where one party creates or otherwise obtains a secret value, and securely…:…
H04L 9/0891
Key distribution or management, e.g. generation, sharing or updating, of cryptographic keys or passwords: revocation or update of secret…

Highly available and reliable secret distribution infrastructure

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Highly available and reliable secret distribution infrastructure

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