Patent ID: 7925890

Claim:
A method for re-initializing a cryptographic processing module, comprising: generating recovery information, at said cryptographic processing module located in a classified environment, that includes a module unique recovery vector and module unique data; communicating said module unique recovery vector from said classified environment, over a computer network, to an unclassified network database; storing in said unclassified network database said module unique recovery vector defining first re-initialization data that is required for re-activating previously deactivated information security functions of said cryptographic processing module at a future time and is functional only with one said cryptographic processing module for which it was uniquely generated; indexing said module unique recovery vector in said unclassified network database using a unique module identifying code that identifies said cryptographic processing module; relocating said cryptographic processing module from said classified environment to an unclassified environment; subsequent to said relocation, communicating said module unique recovery vector from said unclassified network database, over said computer network, to said unclassified environment; and using said module unique data and said module unique recovery vector provided from said unclassified network database to re-initialize said cryptographic processing module in said unclassified environment; wherein said module unique data defines second re-initialization data that is required for re-activating said previously deactivated information security functions of said cryptographic processing module and is unique to said cryptographic processing module.