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Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2022

Filed:

Mar. 27, 2020
Applicant:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Prashant Dewan, Portland, OR (US);

Chao Zhang, Shanghai, CN;

Nivedita Aggarwal, Portland, OR (US);

Aditya Katragada, Austin, TX (US);

Mohamed Haniffa, Tamilnadu, IN;

Kenji Chen, Taiwan, CN;

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/57 (2013.01); G06F 8/65 (2018.01); G06F 21/64 (2013.01); G06F 21/44 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/572 (2013.01); G06F 8/65 (2013.01); G06F 21/64 (2013.01); G06F 2221/033 (2013.01);
Abstract

An apparatus to verify firmware in a computing system, comprising a non-volatile memory, including firmware memory to store agent firmware associated with each of a plurality of interconnect protocol (IP) agents and version memory to store security version numbers (SVNs) included in the agent firmware, a security controller comprising verifier logic to verify an integrity of the version memory by applying a hash algorithm to contents of the version memory to generate a SVN hash, and a trusted platform module (TPM) to store the SVN hash.


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