Secure key management

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9306745-B2
Application number	US-201213652022-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 15, 2012
Priority date	May 4, 2011
Publication date	Apr 5, 2016
Grant date	Apr 5, 2016

Abstract

According to one embodiment, a method for implementing secure key management is provided. The method includes populating a section of information associated with a key, the section being populated with information relating to how the key was created. The method also includes populating the section with information relating to how the key was acquired by a secure module; and binding the section to the key, wherein the key is encrypted.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer-implemented method for secure key creation and management via a secure token, comprising:
acquiring, by a secure module comprising a first computer system, a key that was created on a second computer system that is located outside of the secure module;
acquiring, by the secure module, a section of information associated with the key, the section of information being populated with information relating to how the key was created;
populating, by…

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Arnold Todd W
• Dames Elizabeth A
• Frehr Carsten D
• Kelly Michael J
• Kerr Kenneth B
• Kisley Richard V
• Rossman Eric D
• Smith Eric B

Classifications

• H04L9/0897

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L2209/56

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L9/088 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic