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Sampath Kumar Victor

Gregory J Zavertnik

Vimalraj Vasudevan Thekkoot

Soumya Jain

Vishwajit Tumkur Mahalingappa

Karthikeyan Nagarathinam

Varsha Jagdale

One example provides a method for authenticating a computing device received from a manufacturer, the method including establishing a secured connection with the computing device, receiving, from the computing device, a first set of security artifacts, and retrieving, from a secure cloud storage location, a second set of security artifacts, the second set of security artifacts including the EK public key and the PCR values for the computing device obtained during manufacturing. The method further comprises, when the first set of security artifacts matches the second set of security artifacts, then verifying the computing device as trusted and permitting communication between the computing device and a secured computing environment, and when the first set of security artifacts does not match the second set of security artifacts, then not verifying the computing device as trusted and not permitting communication between the computing device and the secured computing environment.

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