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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2015
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Richard Harold Boivie, Monroe, CT (US);
Kattamuri Ekanadham, Mohegan Lake, NY (US);
Kenneth Alan Goldman, Norwalk, CT (US);
William Eric Hall, Clinton, CT (US);
Guerney Douglass Holloway Hunt, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Bhushan Pradip Jain, Jalgaon, IN;
Mohit Kapur, Sleepy Hollow, NY (US);
Dimitrios Pendarakis, Westport, CT (US);
David Robert Safford, Brewster, NY (US);
Peter Anthony Sandon, Essex Junction, VT (US);
Enriquillo Valdez, Brooklyn, NY (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A processor in a computer system, the processor including a mechanism supporting a Secure Object that comprises information that is protected so that other software on said computer system cannot access or undetectably tamper with said information, thereby protecting both a confidentiality and an integrity of the Secure Object information while making the Secure Object information available to the Secure Object itself during execution of the Secure Object. The mechanism includes a crypto mechanism that decrypts and integrity-checks Secure Object information as said Secure Object information moves into the computer system from an external storage system, and encrypts and updates an integrity value for Secure Object information as said Secure Object information moves out of the computer system to the external storage system, and a memory protection mechanism that protects the confidentiality and integrity of Secure Object information when that information is in the memory of the computer system.