Patent 8402278 was granted and assigned to CA (journal) on March, 2013 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The present invention is directed to a method and system for protecting data. In accordance with a particular embodiment of the present invention a new file is created. Key information is retrieved for the file from a keyserver. The key information includes, a key, a key identifier, and encryption algorithm information. The file is encrypted using the encryption algorithm. The key identifier is stored in a data repository. The data repository relates the key identifier to the encrypted file.