Technology For Fine-Grain Encryption And Secure Key Injection On Self-Encrypting Drives

• Main Authors: Noeldner, David Ray, Bowen, Thomas Rodel, Reimers, Niels Juel, Hughes, Jonathan Martin, Chung, Emily Po-Kay, Cain, Gamil Assudan, Greer, Teddy Gordon, Pearson, Adrian Robert
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 29.08.2019
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRICITY; PHYSICS; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION

A self-encrypting drive (SED) comprises an SED controller and a nonvolatile storage medium (NVSM) responsive to the SED controller. The SED controller enables the SED to perform operations comprising: (a) receiving an encrypted media encryption key (eMEK) for a client; (b) decrypting the eMEK into a...