US Patent Issued to Intel on July 21 for "Secure key provisioning and hardware-assisted secure key storage and secure cryptographic function operation in container-based environments" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,501, issued on July 21, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Secure key provisioning and hardware-assisted secure key storage and secure cryptographic function operation in container-based environments" was invented by Haidong Xia (Folsom, Calif.) and Mourad Cherfaoui (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A key caching container provides for the secure storage of cryptographic keys and the secure operation of cryptographic functions for workload containers. A cryptographic call adapter in each workload container converts application cryptographic operation requests made by an application to workload containe...