Patent ID: 11929995
Assignee: ARRIS ENTERPRISES LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 7:
8. An apparatus for securely storing data, comprising:
a processor;
a memory, communicatively coupled to the processor, the memory storing instructions defined in a software image to:
receive the data as encrypted confidential data by a licensor according to a first global hardware key (GK) created from combining a root global key with secret pairs;
decrypt the encrypted confidential data as decrypted data;
re-encrypt the decrypted data as re-encrypted data according to a second GK, wherein the second GK is encoded according to a base key;
encrypt the re-encrypted data according to a unit key as double-encrypted confidential data; and
store the double-encrypted confidential data in a secure memory of the apparatus.