diff --git a/keystore2/src/globals.rs b/keystore2/src/globals.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0654b29
--- /dev/null
+++ b/keystore2/src/globals.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+// Copyright 2020, The Android Open Source Project
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+//! This module holds global state of Keystore such as the thread local
+//! database connections and connections to services that Keystore needs
+//! to talk to.
+
+use crate::database::KeystoreDB;
+use std::cell::RefCell;
+
+thread_local! {
+    /// Database connections are not thread safe, but connecting to the
+    /// same database multiple times is safe as long as each connection is
+    /// used by only one thread. So we store one database connection per
+    /// thread in this thread local key.
+    pub static DB: RefCell<KeystoreDB> =
+            RefCell::new(KeystoreDB::new().expect("Failed to open database."));
+}
diff --git a/keystore2/src/lib.rs b/keystore2/src/lib.rs
index b5fef3e..7439a5b 100644
--- a/keystore2/src/lib.rs
+++ b/keystore2/src/lib.rs
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@
 
 pub mod database;
 pub mod error;
+pub mod globals;
 /// Internal Representation of Key Parameter and convenience functions.
 pub mod key_parameter;
 pub mod permission;
+pub mod utils;
diff --git a/keystore2/src/utils.rs b/keystore2/src/utils.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..825b34a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/keystore2/src/utils.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,122 @@
+// Copyright 2020, The Android Open Source Project
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+//! This module implements utility functions used by the Keystore 2.0 service
+//! implementation.
+
+use crate::error::Error;
+use crate::permission;
+use crate::permission::{KeyPerm, KeyPermSet, KeystorePerm};
+use android_hardware_keymint::aidl::android::hardware::keymint::{
+    KeyParameter::KeyParameter as KmParam, Tag::Tag,
+};
+use android_system_keystore2::aidl::android::system::keystore2::{
+    KeyDescriptor::KeyDescriptor, KeyParameter::KeyParameter,
+};
+use anyhow::{anyhow, Context};
+use binder::{FromIBinder, SpIBinder, ThreadState};
+use std::sync::Mutex;
+
+/// This function uses its namesake in the permission module and in
+/// combination with with_calling_sid from the binder crate to check
+/// if the caller has the given keystore permission.
+pub fn check_keystore_permission(perm: KeystorePerm) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
+    ThreadState::with_calling_sid(|calling_sid| {
+        permission::check_keystore_permission(
+            &calling_sid.ok_or_else(Error::sys).context(
+                "In check_keystore_permission: Cannot check permission without calling_sid.",
+            )?,
+            perm,
+        )
+    })
+}
+
+/// This function uses its namesake in the permission module and in
+/// combination with with_calling_sid from the binder crate to check
+/// if the caller has the given grant permission.
+pub fn check_grant_permission(access_vec: KeyPermSet, key: &KeyDescriptor) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
+    ThreadState::with_calling_sid(|calling_sid| {
+        permission::check_grant_permission(
+            &calling_sid.ok_or_else(Error::sys).context(
+                "In check_grant_permission: Cannot check permission without calling_sid.",
+            )?,
+            access_vec,
+            key,
+        )
+    })
+}
+
+/// This function uses its namesake in the permission module and in
+/// combination with with_calling_sid from the binder crate to check
+/// if the caller has the given key permission.
+pub fn check_key_permission(
+    perm: KeyPerm,
+    key: &KeyDescriptor,
+    access_vector: &Option<KeyPermSet>,
+) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
+    ThreadState::with_calling_sid(|calling_sid| {
+        permission::check_key_permission(
+            &calling_sid
+                .ok_or_else(Error::sys)
+                .context("In check_key_permission: Cannot check permission without calling_sid.")?,
+            perm,
+            key,
+            access_vector,
+        )
+    })
+}
+
+/// This function converts a `KeyParameter` from the keystore2 AIDL
+/// bindings into a `KeyParameter` from the keymint AIDL bindings.
+/// TODO This is a temporary workaround until the keymint AIDL spec
+/// lands.
+pub fn keyparam_ks_to_km(p: &KeyParameter) -> KmParam {
+    KmParam {
+        tag: Tag(p.tag),
+        boolValue: p.boolValue,
+        integer: p.integer,
+        longInteger: p.longInteger,
+        dateTime: p.dateTime,
+        blob: match &p.blob {
+            Some(b) => b.clone(),
+            None => vec![],
+        },
+    }
+}
+
+/// Thread safe wrapper around SpIBinder. It is safe to have SpIBinder smart pointers to the
+/// same object in multiple threads, but cloning a SpIBinder is not thread safe.
+/// Keystore frequently hands out binder tokens to the security level interface. If this
+/// is to happen from a multi threaded thread pool, the SpIBinder needs to be protected by a
+/// Mutex.
+#[derive(Debug)]
+pub struct Asp(Mutex<SpIBinder>);
+
+impl Asp {
+    /// Creates a new instance owning a SpIBinder wrapped in a Mutex.
+    pub fn new(i: SpIBinder) -> Self {
+        Self(Mutex::new(i))
+    }
+
+    /// Clones the owned SpIBinder and attempts to convert it into the requested interface.
+    pub fn get_interface<T: FromIBinder + ?Sized>(&self) -> anyhow::Result<Box<T>> {
+        // We can use unwrap here because we never panic when locked, so the mutex
+        // can never be poisoned.
+        let lock = self.0.lock().unwrap();
+        (*lock)
+            .clone()
+            .into_interface()
+            .map_err(|e| anyhow!(format!("get_interface failed with error code {:?}", e)))
+    }
+}