Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Secure format-preserving encryption of data fields
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Application No.: US14844048Application Date: 2015-09-03
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Publication No.: US09858436B2Publication Date: 2018-01-02
- Inventor: Todd W. Arnold , John C. Dayka , Steven R. Hart , Geoffrey G. Jackson , Eysha S. Powers , James W. Sweeny
- Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Cantor Colburn LLP
- Agent William A. Kinnaman, Jr.
- Main IPC: G06F12/14
- IPC: G06F12/14 ; G06F21/62 ; G06F17/30

Abstract:
In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes extracting first key derivation data from a first row of data to be stored in a database, where the database includes two or more rows of data. A first encryption subkey is generated, by a computer processor, by combining the first key derivation data with a static key. One or more sensitive fields in each row of the two or more rows of the database are encrypted using a unique corresponding encryption subkey for the row, and the first encryption subkey is unique to the first row among the two or more rows of the database. The one or more sensitive fields in the first row of data are encrypted with format-preserving encryption using the first encryption subkey. The first row of data, including the encrypted one or more sensitive fields, are stored in the database.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160224802A1 SECURE FORMAT-PRESERVING ENCRYPTION OF DATA FIELDS Public/Granted day:2016-08-04
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