Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Ye Jin Yoon

Seung-Jae Lee

Ji Soo Kim

Min Gon Shin

Jin Taek Kwon

Hwa Soo Lee

A storage device is provided. The storage device includes a boot ROM stores a plurality of public keys and a boot ROM image, an OTP memory identifies a first public key among the plurality of public keys, a first memory including a first area the stores the plurality of public keys and a flash boot image different from the boot ROM image, and a second area that stores a first boot signature corresponding to the flash boot image, a second memory including a first firmware image including a first firmware signature, and a memory controller that receives a second firmware image including a second firmware signature and a second boot signature, receives a second public key among the plurality of public keys and the flash boot image based on the second firmware image being received, and write the second boot signature in the second area of the first memory.

Storage device

A storage device including: a bridge board to receive a first command; an authenticator to receive user information; and a memory device to receive the first command from the bridge board, the memory device includes a memory controller which determines a status of the memory device, provides status information including the determined status of the memory device to the bridge board, determines the status of the memory device as an unlocked status or a locked status, the bridge board includes a transceiver which communicates with the host through an interface, a register which stores interface information, and a bridge board controller which generates a first response to the first command in a format corresponding to the interface using the interface information, and provides the first response to a host, the first response includes a status bit which inhibits or allows a write operation with respect to the memory device.

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Hwaseong-si, South Korea

Ye Jin Yoon