A method of securing security data stored on a computer system is
disclosed. The method comprises providing a data key to the computer
system. The data key is used for transforming the security data in a
reversible fashion to produce an encoded secure data such that the data
key is required in order to perform a reverse transform and extract the
security data from the encoded secure data. The encoded secure data are
stored secure data in a fashion such that a user authorization process is
used to retrieve the encoded secure data. Furthermore, the encoded secure
data are stored such that the data key and the user authorization process
in combination provide access to the security data and such that the
stored data within the computer system is encoded.