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Method and system for providing a secure secrets proxy and distributing secrets

US9684791B2 · kind B2 · utility

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28Claims

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Assignee

Intuit Inc. · US

Inventors

Luis Felipe Cabrera · Bellevue, US
M. Shannon Lietz · San Marcos, US
James Armitage · San Diego, US
Oleg Gryb · San Francisco, US
Elangovan Shanmugam · Cupertino, US
Sabu Kuruvila Philip · Redwood City, US
Brett Weaver · San Diego, US
Thomas Bishop · San Diego, US
Troy D. Otillio · Carlsbad, US
Jinglei Whitehouse · Wayland, US
Jeffrey M. Wolfe · Parrish, US
Ankur Jain · Bengaluru, IN

Key dates

Filing date	Apr 20, 2016
Grant date	Jun 20, 2017
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Apr 20, 2036

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04L63/20
WIPO fieldDigital communication
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A secure secrets proxy is instantiated in a first computing environment and includes secure secrets proxy authentication data for identifying itself to a secrets distribution management system in a second computing environment as a trusted virtual asset to receive and cache secrets data in a secure secrets cache outside the second computing environment. A virtual asset requests one or more secrets, triggering a process to authenticate the requesting virtual asset, gathering authorized secrets data representing secrets the virtual asset is allowed to have. The secure secrets proxy is provided data representing the requested secrets and stores that secrets data in the secure secrets cache of the proxy.

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