US Patent 11023620 Cryptography chip with identity verification

Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for performing cryptographic operations subject to identity verification. One of the methods includes receiving, by a cryptography chip, a request to perform a requested cryptographic operation from a client including client identity information, wherein the cryptography chip includes a processing resource that performs cryptographic operations and a storage resource that stores key information used in the cryptographic operations, and identity information associated with clients that are permitted to request cryptographic operations; determining, by the cryptography chip, that the client identity information is associated with one of the clients that are permitted to request cryptographic operations; and performing, by the cryptography chip, the requested cryptographic operation based on the key information stored in the storage resource.