公开(公告)号：US11113408B2

公开(公告)日：2021-09-07

申请号：US16105214

申请日：2018-08-20

Applicant: HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LP

Inventor： Gareth David Richards ,  Michael William Francis Healey, Jr.

IPC: G06F21/60 ,  G06F21/62 ,  H04L9/08 ,  H04L9/14

Abstract: A method for use in managing a secure object store in a computing system includes: securing the secure object store including creating, maintaining, and using a hierarchical key system and accessing an encrypted data object using the Node Key Encryption Key and a selected one of the Data Encryption Keys. The securing includes: generating a Node Key Encryption Key; generating a plurality of Data Encryption Keys that are encrypted using the Node Key Encryption Key; and encrypting a plurality of data objects using the Data Encryption Keys, each data object being encrypted by a respective Data Encryption Key.