Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Cryptographic encryption key escrow and recovery
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Application No.: US15141424Application Date: 2016-04-28
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Publication No.: US10079679B2Publication Date: 2018-09-18
- Inventor: Floyd A Brown
- Applicant: Bank of America Corporation
- Applicant Address: US NC Charlotte
- Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
- Current Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NC Charlotte
- Agency: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.
- Agent Michael A. Springs
- Main IPC: H04L29/06
- IPC: H04L29/06 ; H04L9/08 ; G06F21/31 ; G06F21/40 ; G06F21/32 ; H04L9/00

Abstract:
Various features described herein may include supervision or control of a cryptographic signal necessary for encryption or decryption. Specifically, key management may be performed, wherein the key is deposited or retrieved to or from a third party. For example, data may be encrypted. The encrypted data may be unencrypted by using a key, which may be stored on a different device (e.g., a server). The different device may perform authenticating a device requesting access to the key, determining a recovery key for the encrypted data, and providing the recovery key for the encrypted data. The recovery key may then be used to recover access to the encrypted data. Thus, the key may be deposited for escrow by the different device until such time that the key is necessary for recovery of the encrypted data, at which time the key may be retrieved for decryption of the encrypted data.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170317824A1 CRYPTOGRAPHIC ENCRYPTION KEY ESCROW AND RECOVERY Public/Granted day:2017-11-02
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