Securely and redundantly storing encryption credentials system and method

A computer program product residing on a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having a plurality of instructions stored thereon which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

• generating a key, wherein the key includes at least one of an encryption key and an authentication key;
• generating one or more credentials to access a Secure KeyStore storing the key, wherein the one or more credentials includes one or more stable system values, and wherein the one or more stable system values includes one or more virtual values and one or more hardware values, wherein the one or more hardware values are based upon, at least in part, a value that is constant for a component of storage system hardware, wherein generating one or more credentials includes splitting between virtual values and hardware values to enable replacement of the component;
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• providing the one or more stable system values to the Secure KeyStore to retrieve the key.

A computing system including a processor and a memory configured to perform operations comprising:

• generating a key, via the processor, wherein the key includes at least one of an encryption key and an authentication key;
• generating one or more credentials to access a Secure KeyStore storing the key, wherein the one or more credentials includes one or more stable system values, and wherein the one or more stable system values includes one or more virtual values and one or more hardware values, wherein the one or more hardware values are based upon, at least in part, a value that is constant for a component of storage system hardware, wherein generating one or more credentials includes splitting between virtual values and hardware values to enable replacement of the component;
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• providing the one or more stable system values to the Secure KeyStore to retrieve the key.