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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 2022
Filed:
Feb. 08, 2021
Citrix Systems, Inc., Fort Lauderdale, FL (US);
Ioannis Beredimas, Salonika, GR;
Snigdhendu Mukhopadhyay, San Jose, CA (US);
Adam Phillip Schultz, Apex, NC (US);
CITRIX SYSTEMS, INC., Fort Lauderdale, FL (US);
Abstract
A system and method for securely encrypting and booting a headless appliance. A computerized method is disclosed that includes: providing the network appliance with content encrypted with a secret key; launching the network appliance in a fallback configuration that provides limited operational capabilities; forwarding a request for the secret key to an online service that independently utilizes an identity provider to establish trust with an appliance administrator; receiving the secret key from the online service upon establishment of trust with the appliance administrator; decrypting the content with the secret key received from the online service; and utilizing the content to launch the network appliance in a full configuration.