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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 23, 2018
Applicant:
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventors:
Samyuktha Subramanian, Mountain View, CA (US);
Daniel Muller, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Mukund Gunti, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Adrian Drzewiecki, Cupertino, CA (US);
Assignee:
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/57 (2013.01); G06F 21/64 (2013.01); H04L 9/32 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01); G06F 21/51 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/57 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 21/51 (2013.01); G06F 21/64 (2013.01); H04L 9/3247 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45587 (2013.01);
Abstract
An example method of authenticating software executing in a computer system includes verifying first software executing on the computer system, the software including a hypervisor, verifying second software executing in a virtual machine (VM) managed by the hypervisor, generating a binding key having public and private portions, signing an object to identifies the VM using the private portion of the binding key, and verifying a signature of the object using a public portion of the binding key.