Patent ID: 6993130
Filing Date: 2006-01-31
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A secure data storage system, comprising: a memory possessing mediametric properties depending on specific characteristics of a particular sample of a memory device, the mediametric properties that may be possessed by the sample of the device including those created by a particular instance of a specified operation on the sample of the device, the mediametric properties of one sample of a device being different from those of other similar samples or from those created by another instance of an operation that may have created mediametric properties originally possessed by the sample, the mediametric properties being difficult to duplicate on other samples, or on the same sample by an repetition of the operation; and a processor adapted to receive data relating to mediametric properties of the memory and use the mediametric properties as a source of data to generate an encryption key to encrypt data for storage in the memory.