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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 10, 2023
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Samar Asbe, San Diego, CA (US);
Aseem Brahma, San Diego, CA (US);
Shivaprasad Hongal, San Diego, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed are systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media for booting a device with independent stage keys. In one illustrative example, a computing device can generate a first stage key for a first stage of a current boot operation of the device based on a private key associated with the device. The computing device can authenticate a first firmware of the first stage using a first authentication tag and the first stage key, wherein the first authentication tag is generated during a previous boot operation. computing device can execute the first firmware based on authenticating the first firmware.