International Business Machines Corporation

Weikai Xie

Hang Jun Ye

Yi Ge

Tao Zhou

Yudong Yang

Guo Hui Lin

The present invention provides a central processing unit for processing at least one encrypted software. The encrypted software comprises at least one encrypted software section. The encrypted software section is encrypted with a management key MK, and the MK being encrypted with a device key DK as a encrypted MK. The central processing unit comprises processing and cache unit, and cryptographic unit. The cryptographic unit comprises device key storage unit for storing the DK, a plurality of management key storage units for storing MKs, wherein each management key storage unit corresponding to a management key index MKI, and decryption unit. The decryption unit decrypts a encrypted MK with the DK to obtain a MK, stores the MK to a management key storage unit, and output a MKI corresponding to the management key storage unit, thus the MKI is used to correspond to the encrypted software section. Wherein, the decryption unit invokes corresponding MK according to the MKI and decrypts the encrypted software section, and directly transfers the decrypted software code and/or data to the processing and cache unit.

Method and central processing unit for processing encrypted software

A method and system for building an embedded software package for a target system including creating a cross-compiling stub in the target system, wherein the stub accesses a compiling tool at a remote location, starting a software package building process at the target system, and intercepting a compiling command coming from said software package building process and forwarding the compiling commands to said remote compiling server using the cross-compiling tool stub so that a source file will be compiled by a corresponding cross-compiling tool in the remote compiling server. The method and system allow a developer of software for an embedded system be able to start a software package building process on the target system as in the native compilation situation, and have the actual compiling of the source file in the software package be performed by cross-compiling tools in another computer with high performance.

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