- Patent Title: Secure transfer and use of secret material in a shared environment
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Application No.: US14831341Application Date: 2015-08-20
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Publication No.: US09774573B2Publication Date: 2017-09-26
- Inventor: Daniel W. Hitchcock , Darren Ernest Canavor , Tushaar Sethi
- Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US WA Seattle
- Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- Current Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Seattle
- Agency: Thomas Horstemeyer, LLP
- Agent Michael J. D'Aurelio; Jason M. Perilla
- Main IPC: H04L29/06
- IPC: H04L29/06 ; G06F21/10 ; H04L9/14 ; H04L9/08 ; G06F21/62 ; H04L9/32

Abstract:
Aspects related to the secure transfer and use of secret material are described. In one embodiment, public vendor and provider keys are provided to a customer and encrypted secret material is received in return. The encrypted secret material may include a customer secret material encrypted by the public vendor and provider keys. The encrypted secret material is imported into a trusted execution environment and decrypted with private provider and vendor keys. In this manner, a provider of cryptographic processes is not exposed to the secret material of the customer, as the customer secret material is decrypted and stored within the trusted execution environment but is not accessed by the provider in an unencrypted form. In turn, the provider may receive various instructions to perform cryptographic operations on behalf of the customer, and those instructions may be performed by the trusted execution environment.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170063811A1 Secure Transfer and Use of Secret Material in a Shared Environment Public/Granted day:2017-03-02
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