Patent ID: 11924345
Assignee: FORNETIX LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 11:
12. An applied key management system, comprising:
a secure key storage;
a memory;
and a processor, the processor configured to:
receive a recovery request from a communication device to recover a local key from the secure key storage of the applied key management system;

wherein the recovery request comprises one or more of the key attributes of the local key, an application identifier identifying the local application associated with the local key, a user identifier identifying a user authorized to use the local key, a device identifier identifying the communication device, or a time at which the local key is collected;
evaluating authorization of the recovery request based on one or more policies relating to at least one key attribute of the local key;
determine to recover the local key from the key storage in response to the local key being authorized by the one or more policies the one or more policies being based on at least one key attribute indicating one or more security and cryptographic considerations of the local key, and
send the local key to the communication device in response to determining to recover the local key.