InventorsUS Classes713/171, Having key exchange707/202, Recoverability707/204, Archiving or backup713/150, MULTIPLE COMPUTER COMMUNICATION USING CRYPTOGRAPHY713/168, Particular communication authentication technique713/189DATA PROCESSING PROTECTION USING CRYPTOGRAPHYAttorney, Agent or FirmInternational ClassesH04L 9/32G06F 17/30 Abstract textAn infrastructure for archiving data among a client, a broker, and a plurality of archives, wherein the client comprises: a backup agent configured to fragment and erasure encode the data to create a set of erasure encoded data fragments; a communications agent configured to communicate the erasure encoded data fragments to the broker, issue a challenge for a challenge/response protocol to the broker, and to request data from the archives; and a restore agent configured to combine the data fragments obtained from the broker upon a data restore request. |
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