Patent ID: 11962696
Assignee: VMWARE LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 7:
8. A non-transitory, computer-readable medium containing instructions that are executed by a hardware-based processor to perform stages for removing unused encryption key files from a computing device, the stages comprising:
creating a first set of encryption key file names by appending a device identifier of the computing device to each of a plurality of known encryption key names;
adding the encryption key file names in the first set to a whitelist;
creating a second set of encryption key file names that includes encryption keys associated with certificates on the computing device;
adding the encryption key files names in the second set to the whitelist;
comparing a name of each encryption key file in a designated folder of the computing device to the whitelist;
comparing a creation date of each encryption key file in the designated folder to a cutoff timestamp; and
removing all encryption key files in the designated folder created before the cutoff timestamp have a name not on the whitelist.