Patent ID: 8321956
Filing Date: 2012-11-27
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. An access control device comprising: at least one communicational interface through which communications with a storage device comprising encrypted data are established; at least one processing unit; access control information comprising identifications of entities that are to be allowed by the access control device to access, in an unencrypted form, the encrypted data stored on the storage device; storage-related cryptographic information that can decrypt the encrypted data of the storage device with which communications are established through the at least one communicational interface, wherein the storage-related cryptographic information comprises: a computer-readable medium comprising computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processing unit, cause the at least one processing unit to perform steps comprising: wherein the access control device is physically separable from both the storage device and the computing device; and wherein further the computer-executable instructions that cause the provision of the storage related cryptographic information to the storage device comprises computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processing unit, cause the at least one processing unit to: