Patent ID: 11924183
Assignee: PURE STORAGE, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A storage system that includes a plurality of Non-Volatile Memory Express (‘NVMe’) Solid State Drives (‘SSDs’) and a controller, wherein the controller is configured to carry out the steps of:
retrieving, from non-encrypted namespaces of the plurality of NVMe SSDs of the storage system, a plurality of unencrypted shares of a master secret;
reconstructing the master secret using the plurality of unencrypted shares of the master secret;
decrypting one or more encrypted device keys using the master secret; and
using the decrypted device keys to perform a plurality of accesses to one or more of the plurality of NVMe SSDs.