US Patent Issued to VMware on May 20 for "Encryption in a distributed storage system utilizing cluster-wide encryption keys" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,258, issued on May 20, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Encryption in a distributed storage system utilizing cluster-wide encryption keys" was invented by Tao Xie (Shanghai), Wenguang Wang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Ruiling Dou (Shanghai) and Zhao Jin (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for encryption in a distributed datastore is provided. The method generally includes receiving random data from a virtualization management platform as a wrapped data encryption key (DEK), retrieving a key encryption key (KEK) from a key management server (KMS), decrypting the wrapped DEK using the KEK to determine a blank DE...