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Cloud-based key management

  • US 9,621,524 B2
  • Filed: 12/16/2013
  • Issued: 04/11/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/16/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • providing an administrator password for a host of an enterprise network;

    retrieving a company private key for the enterprise network to an administrative host using a call authenticated with a cryptographic hash of the administrator password, wherein the company private key is received from the host as a private key encrypted with the administrative administrator password;

    selecting an endpoint within the enterprise network;

    creating a rollout password for the endpoint;

    creating an endpoint key pair for the endpoint, the endpoint key pair comprising a public endpoint key signed with the company private key and a private endpoint key encrypted with the rollout password;

    transmitting the endpoint key pair to a remote computing resource with a call authenticated using a cryptographic hash of the administrator password;

    transmitting a cryptographic hash of the rollout password to the remote computing resource with a second call using a cryptographic hash of the administrator password; and

    providing the rollout password to a user of the endpoint; and

    providing the endpoint key pair from the remote computing resource to the endpoint based on a call from the endpoint to the remote computing resource authenticated using the cryptographic hash of the rollout password.

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