Abstract: Techniques are disclosed to establish trust in a cluster of edge devices. An edge device cloud service can associate a first cloud-computing edge device with a fleet of cloud-computing edge devices and provision the first cloud-computing edge device with a master encryption key. The edge device cloud service can associate a second cloud-computing edge device with the fleet and provision the second cloud-computing edge device with the master encryption key and the first public encryption key. The first cloud-computing edge device can receive from the second cloud-computing edge device encrypted message data comprising the second public encryption key. The first cloud-computing edge device can decrypt the encrypted message data using the master encryption key stored in the first key store and update the first key store with the second public encryption key.

Abstract: Information pertinent to an item or product may be organized (e.g., structured) as a property of the item or product. The property may be represented (e.g., stored) as property data in a data structure of the item or product. A property may have one or more properties of its own. In this manner, information pertinent to items, products, properties, or any suitable combination thereof may be structured with any level of sophistication or complexity. Accordingly, a data structure may be generated to contain one or more properties of an item or product, as well as to contain one or more properties of those properties. A “composite property” refers to such a data structure and may be indexed based on a value contained therein. The value may be used to identify the item or the product, for example, as an instance of a virtual product.