Multi-level independent security architecture

• US 10,114,766 B2
• Filed: 11/18/2016
• Issued: 10/30/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 04/01/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Secturion Systems, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Secturion Systems, Inc.
• Inventors: Takahashi, Richard J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Cervetti, David Garcia
• Application Number:
  US15/355,303
• Publication Number:
  US 20170075821A1
• Time in Patent Office: 711 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 12/0802 Addressing of a memory level in which the access to the desired data or data block requires associative addressing means, e.g. caches
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 12/1408 by using cryptography for digital transmission H04L9/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 12/1466 Key-lock mechanism
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/575 Secure boot
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/72 in cryptographic circuits
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/78 to assure secure storage of data address-based protection against unauthorised use of memory G06F12/14; record carriers for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings G06K19/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2212/1052 Security improvement
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2212/402 Encrypted data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2212/60 Details of cache memory
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0435 wherein the sending and receiving network entities apply symmetric encryption, i.e. same key used for encryption and decryption cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for symmetric key encryption H04L9/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0485 Networking architectures for enhanced packet encryption processing, e.g. offloading of IPsec packet processing or efficient security association look-up
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/105 Multiple levels of security
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/14 using a plurality of keys or algorithms

Abstract

A system includes a plurality of data input ports, each port corresponding to one of a plurality of different levels of security classification; a security device, configured for cryptographic processing, coupled to receive incoming data from each of the plurality of input ports, wherein the incoming data includes first data having a first classification level; a key manager configured to select and tag-identified first set of keys from a plurality of key sets, each of the key sets corresponding to one of the different levels of security classification, wherein the first set of keys is used by the security device to encrypt the first data; and a common encrypted data storage, coupled to receive the encrypted first data from the security device for storage.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a plurality of data input ports, each port corresponding to one of a plurality of different levels of security classification;

a plurality of computing devices coupled to receive incoming data from the plurality of input ports, wherein the incoming data includes a first data packet having a first classification level, the first data packet comprises a tag that identifies one of the levels of security classification, and wherein each computing device is configured to perform, by at least one processor, security processing for at least one of the different levels of security classification;

wherein a first computing device of the plurality of computing devices is further configured to;

encrypt, using a first set of keys, the first data packet for sending to a data storage;

read the first data packet from the data storage;

after reading the first data packet from the data storage, detect that the first data packet is stored at the first classification level;

generate, based on detecting that the first data packet is stored at the first classification level, a key address to select a second set of keys; and

decrypt the first data packet using the second set of keys;

a multiplexer configured to route, based on the tag, the first data packet from one of the data input ports to the first computing device; and

a key manager configured to select the first set of keys from a plurality of key sets stored in at least one memory, each of the key sets corresponding to one of the different levels of security classification.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the key manager is an internal key manager of one of the computing devices.

3. The system of claim 1, further comprising a plurality of key caches, wherein the key manager is coupled to an external key manager, and keys received from the external key manager are stored in one of the associated key caches for use by one of the computing devices during encryption of incoming data packets.

4. The system of claim 1, further comprising a plurality of key caches, wherein keys are stored in each of the key caches for use by a selected one of the computing devices during encryption of the incoming data.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the multiplexer is programmable to support different interface protocols, and each of the plurality of computing devices is programmable to support different encryption protocols.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein each of the computing devices includes at least one field-programmable gate array programmable to support the different interface protocols.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein each of the computing devices is physically isolated from the other of the computing devices.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein each of the computing devices comprises a packet input engine and a cryptographic engine, each configured for data processing as part of a two-dimensional systolic array.

9. A method, comprising:

providing a plurality of computing devices, each computing device comprising at least one processor configured to perform security processing for at least one of a plurality of different levels of security classification, including a first computing device to perform processing for a first classification level;

receiving incoming data from a plurality of data ports, each port corresponding to one of the plurality of different levels of security classification, wherein the incoming data includes a first data packet having the first classification level;

routing, by a multiplexer and based on the first classification level, the first data packet from one of the data ports to the first computing device;

encrypting, by the first computing device, the first data packet using a first set of keys, the first set of keys selected from a plurality of key sets stored in at least one memory;

after encrypting the first data packet using the first set of keys, adding a tag to a header of the first data packet, the tag indicating that the first data packet is stored at the first classification level;

sending the first data packet to a data storage, wherein the first data packet is stored in the data storage as indicated by the tag;

reading the first data packet from the data storage;

after reading the first data packet from the data storage, detecting, based on the tag, that the first data packet is stored at the first classification level;

generating, based on detecting that the first data packet is stored at the first classification level, a key address to select a second set of keys; and

decrypting the first data packet using the second set of keys.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising zeroizing the first computing device after the encrypting of the first data packet.

11. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

verifying the first classification level of the first data packet using the tag; and

addressing a key store controller to select a key associated with the first data packet for use in decrypting the first data packet.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

selecting, by the key store controller, one of the data ports; and

routing the decrypted first data packet to the data port selected by the key store controller.

13. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

zeroizing the multiplexer after each classified level of data is processed.

14. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

verifying the first classification level of the first data packet using the tag; and

after verifying the first classification level using the tag, addressing a key store controller to select the first set of keys.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

zeroizing the multiplexer after each classified level of data is processed.

16. A system, comprising:

a plurality of data ports to receive incoming data, each port corresponding to one of a plurality of different levels of security classification, wherein the incoming data includes a first data packet having a first classification level;

a plurality of computing devices, each computing device configured to perform encryption for at least one of the different levels of security classification, wherein each computing device comprises at least one processor configured to perform the encryption;

wherein a first computing device of the plurality of computing devices is further configured to;

encrypt, using a first set of keys, the first data packet for writing to a data storage;

read the first data packet from the data storage;

after reading the first data packet from the data storage, detect, based on a tag in a header of the first data packet, that the first data packet is stored at the first classification level;

generate, based on detecting that the first data packet is stored at the first classification level, a key address to select a second set of keys; and

decrypt the first data packet using the second set of keys;

a multiplexer configured to route, based on the first classification level, the first data packet from one of the data ports to the first computing device;

at least one key cache storing, via at least one memory, a plurality of key sets, wherein the first set of keys is selected from the plurality of key sets; and

a packet write engine configured to, after encrypting the first data packet by the first computing device;

add the tag to the header of the first data packet; and

write the encrypted first data packet to the data storage.