US Patent 11240025 Systems and methods for distributed key storage

A system for implementing a distributed certificate authority using trusted hardware includes a first verifying node communicatively coupled to a plurality of remote devices, the verifying node designed and configured to receive an authorization request from a remote device, wherein receiving the authorization request further comprises receiving an identifier of the remote device, authenticate the remote device, and generate an authorization token, wherein generating the authorization token further includes associating the identifier of the remote device with at least an authorization datum, associating the identifier of the remote device with at least a temporal attribute, and digitally signing the authorization datum, and generating the authorization token containing the digitally signed authorization datum.