Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ)

Ari Pietikäinen

Kazi Wali Ullah

Harri Hakala

Ben J Smeets

Ben Smeets

Methods and apparatus for establishing enhanced secure communication between two Network Entities. A method performed by a first Network Entity (NE) to establish communication between the NEand a second Network Entity (NE), wherein both NEand NEtrust a Trusted Network Entity (TNE). The method comprises establishing an initial connection with the NE, obtaining a report associated with NEfrom TNE, wherein the report is signed by the TNE and providing the report associated with NEto NE

Establishment of secure communication

A method of verifying the integrity of a virtual machine in a cloud computing deployment comprises: creating a virtual machine image derived from a trusted virtual machine, wherein the trusted virtual machine has a Keyless Signature Infrastructure signature stored in a signature store; and verifying that a computation resource can be trusted. If it is verified that a computation resource can be trusted, the method further comprises: submitting the virtual machine image to the trusted computation resource; checking a signature of the virtual machine image against the stored signature of the trusted virtual machine; launching the virtual machine image on the trusted computation resource, and creating a Keyless Signature Infrastructure signature of the virtual machine image; and storing the signature of the virtual machine image in a signature store.

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Jorvas, Finland

Ari Pietikäinen