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Secure island computing system and method

  • US 10,275,364 B2
  • Filed: 06/29/2016
  • Issued: 04/30/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • receiving, by a secure containment device (SCD), a request to decrypt data, wherein the request is sent from an application executing on a host system over a first input/output (I/O) interface;

    disabling the first I/O interface after receiving the request from the host system;

    after disabling the first I/O interface;

    obtaining, by the SCD, a user credential from a user, wherein the user credential is input by the user using a user interface on the SCD;

    obtaining, by the SCD, an encrypted secrets file from secure storage;

    decrypting, by the SCD, the secrets file using a secrets file encryption key to obtain a decrypted secrets file, wherein the secrets file encryption key is derived using the user credential;

    enabling the first I/O interface after the decrypted secrets file is obtained; and

    after enabling the first I/O interface;

    providing the decrypted secrets file to the application over the first I/O interface.

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