Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Jonathan M Andes

Brian Stuart Perlman

Hung Minh Dang

Adrian Francisco Teran Guajardo

Yanan Zhang

Colin William Hassett

Arun Upadhyaya Kishan

Vishal Agarwal

Gopinathan Kannan

Kinshuman Kinshumann

Giridharan Sridharan

Dave M McPherson

Sunil P Gottumukkala

Salahuddin Khan

Adam Damiano

Techniques are described herein that are capable of registering a user device with a cloud-based management service using an intermediate cloud storage. For instance, the intermediate cloud storage may store an encrypted data blob including information that identifies the user device. The intermediate cloud storage or a registration system may decrypt the encrypted data blob so that the registration system may use the decrypted data blob to register the user device with the cloud-based management service. For instance, the registration system may retrieve the encrypted or decrypted data blob from the intermediate cloud storage by providing a requisite secret to the intermediate cloud storage. The requisite secret may be provided to the registration system by the user device (e.g., via a matrix barcode, such as a QR code).

Cloud-based management service device registration using intermediate cloud storage

The techniques and systems described herein present various implementations of a model for authenticating processes for execution and specifying and enforcing permission restrictions on system resources for processes and users. In some implementations, a binary file for an application, program, or process may be augmented to include a digital signature encrypted with a key such that an operating system may subsequently authenticate the digital signature. Once the binary file has been authenticated, the operating system may create a process and tag the process with metadata indicating the type of permissions that are allowed for the process. The metadata may correspond to a particular access level for specifying resource permissions.

Process authentication and resource permissions

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