ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,436, issued on April 22, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Instant rekey in a storage system" was invented by Mark Fay (Mountain View, Calif.) and Andrew Bernat (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Rekeying in a storage system, including: receiving a request to rekey a first storage location of a storage system, wherein the first storage location is associated with a first cryptographic key; acknowledging completion of the request to rekey the first storage location without re-encrypting data stored at the first storage location of the storage system; and mapping a second cryptographic key iden...