Patent ID: 8693690

Claim:
A method comprising: generating, by a processor, a single storage table for cryptographic objects, wherein the single storage table comprises rows corresponding to the cryptographic objects and columns corresponding to available attributes capable of being associated with any of the cryptographic objects, wherein the cryptographic objects are defined by a plurality of different cryptographic standards; storing actual attributes of the cryptographic objects in at least one of the columns that correspond to the associated available attributes, receiving a new cryptographic object; determining that the new cryptographic object is defined by a cryptographic standard not represented in the single storage table and comprises a new attribute of the new cryptographic standard that does not have a corresponding column in the single storage table; and storing, in view of the determining, the new cryptographic object in the single storage table by: adding a new column to the single storage table that corresponds to the new attribute of the new cryptographic object; and storing a null value in the rows associated with the new column corresponding to the cryptographic objects currently stored in the single storage table.