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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2020
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
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;
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
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.