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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 07, 2010
Fabio R. Maino, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Pere Monclus, San Jose, CA (US);
David A. Mcgrew, Poolesville, MD (US);
Robert T. Bell, Bountiful, UT (US);
Steven Joseph Rich, Maryville, TN (US);
Fabio R. Maino, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Pere Monclus, San Jose, CA (US);
David A. McGrew, Poolesville, MD (US);
Robert T. Bell, Bountiful, UT (US);
Steven Joseph Rich, Maryville, TN (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques are described for securely booting and executing a virtual machine (VM) image in an untrusted cloud infrastructure. A multi-core processor may be configured with additional hardware components—referred to as a trust anchor. The trust anchor may be provisioned with a private/public key pair, which allows the multi-core CPU to authenticate itself as being able to securely boot and execute a virtual machine (VM) image in an untrusted cloud infrastructure.