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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 30, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2017
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Vincent J. Zimmer, Federal Way, WA (US);
Peter J. Barry, Arndcrusha, IE;
Rajesh Poornachandran, Portland, OR (US);
Arjan Van De Ven, Portland, OR (US);
Peter A. Dice, Chandler, AZ (US);
Gopinatth Selvaraje, Portland, OR (US);
Julien Carreno, Ennis, IE;
Lee G. Rosenbaum, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
In an embodiment, a system on a chip includes: a single core to execute a legacy instruction set, the single core configured to enter a system management mode (SMM) to provide a trusted execution environment to perform at least one secure operation; and a memory controller coupled to the single core, the memory controller to interface with a system memory, where a portion of the system memory comprises a secure memory for the SMM, and the single core is to authenticate and execute a boot firmware, and pass control to the SMM to obtain a key pair from a protected storage and store the key pair in the secure memory. Other embodiments are described and claimed.