US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on July 8 for "Secure cryptographic secret bootstrapping in a provider network" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,873, issued on July 8, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Secure cryptographic secret bootstrapping in a provider network" was invented by Eric Chase (Seattle), Derin L Fleming (Seattle) and Jackson Hill (Renton, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for secure cryptographic secret bootstrapping balance the need to quickly and conveniently restore cryptographic secrets to server computers in the event of an outage with the need for security. Before the outage, a server computer uses a trusted platform module of the server computer to seal an encryption key used to encrypt a secret stored at the server compu...