System and method for authenticating critical operations on solid-state drives

• Main Authors: GUNNESWARA MARRIPUDI, SUBRAMANYAM VARANASI, VISHWANATH MARAM, AJIT YAGATY
• Format: Patent
• Language: Chinese; English
• Published: 13.03.2018
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; PHYSICS

A method includes: receiving an operational command directed to a solid-state drive (SSD) and a security credential; issuing an asynchronous event from the SSD to an authentication agent including thesecurity credential and a security certificate, wherein the security certificate is encoded based on the security credential and is stored in the SSD; forwarding the security credential and the security certificate from the authentication agent to an authentication server; validating the security certificate based on the security credential at an authentication server; providing a validation response from the authentication server to the authentication agent; forwarding the validation response from the authentication agent to the SSD; and executing the operational command based on the validation response. 种用于认证针对固态驱动器的关键操作的系统和方法，所述方法包括：接收针对固态驱动器(SSD)的操作命令和安全凭证；将异步事件从SSD发出到包括安全凭证和安全证书的认证代理，其中，安全证书基于安全凭证被编码并被存储在SSD中；将安全凭证和安全证书从认证代理转发到认证服务器；基于认证服务器的安全凭证验证安全证书；将验证响应从认证服务器提供到认证代理；将验证响应从认证代理转发到SSD；并基于验证响应执行操作命令。