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Encryption with sealed keys

US10911491B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

Marco Kraemer · Sindelfingen, DE
Hoang-Nam Nguyen · Fremont, US
Carsten Otte · Stuttgart, DE
Christoph Raisch · Gerlingen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Nov 20, 2017
Grant date	Feb 2, 2021
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jun 5, 2038

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04L63/205
WIPO fieldDigital communication
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An aspect includes a computer system with a network encryption device and a trusted container within firmware or hardware and/or within a virtual machine running on the computer system. The network encryption device includes a key store for storing secret encryption keys and a network traffic encryption engine for negotiating and/or storing encryption keys in the key store and/or for encrypting and/or decrypting network traffic using the encryption keys from the key store. The trusted container includes a flow analyzer for analyzing network traffic received from the network encryption device.

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