Patent ID: 9165151
Filing Date: 2015-10-20
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: identifying a connected cryptography key storage device on a local communication medium of a computing system; obtaining a crypto-key-management key file from the key storage device; mounting a crypto-key-management virtual drive from a crypto-key-management vault file stored on the computing system using the crypto-key-management key file; obtaining a vault file name of an encrypted virtual drive file and a corresponding encoded vault key file from the key storage device; obtaining a vault key file by decoding the encoded vault key file, wherein decoding the encoded vault key file comprises obtaining decoding parameters, generating a hash value from the decoding parameters, and obtaining the vault key file by decoding the encoded vault key file using the hash value; storing the vault key file at a location within the crypto-key-management virtual drive, the location being identifiable by a location parameter; generating virtual drive mount parameters including the location parameter; and providing the virtual drive mount parameters to an encrypted virtual drive file mounting utility.