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John Colgrove0
Timothy Brennan0
Andrew Bernat0
Ethan Miller0
Date of Patent
June 8, 2021
0Patent Application Number
161677890
Date Filed
October 23, 2018
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Patent abstract
In a storage system that includes a plurality of NVMe SSDs, data protection may be carried out by: for each of the plurality of NVMe SSDs, encrypting a device key using a master secret, wherein the device key, when not encrypted, is used to encrypt and decrypt data in one or more namespaces on the NVMe SSD; generating a plurality of shares from the master secret; and storing a separate share of the plurality of shares in a namespace prohibited from encryption on each NVMe SSD.
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