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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2013

Filed:

Jan. 14, 2011
Applicants:

Ivan Krstić, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Joel Even, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Ivan Krstić, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Joel Even, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for booting a computing device having an encrypted storage medium using full disk encryption, referred to as tamper-resistant boot. The system retrieves a kernel cache and a kernel cache digest from an unencrypted storage medium and verifies the authenticity of the kernel cache based on the credentials and the kernel cache digest. Initiation and execution of the operating system is performed if the kernel cache is authentic. In one embodiment, the system verifies the authenticity of a request to disable tamper-resistant booting by utilizing a password verifier and a password proof.


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