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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2007
Applicants:
Kushagra Vaid, San Jose, CA (US);
Vincent J. Zimmer, Federal Way, WA (US);
Mrigank Shekhar, Camas, WA (US);
Inventors:
Kushagra Vaid, San Jose, CA (US);
Vincent J. Zimmer, Federal Way, WA (US);
Mrigank Shekhar, Camas, WA (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/00 (2006.01); G06F 15/177 (2006.01); G06F 21/57 (2013.01); H04L 9/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/575 (2013.01); H04L 9/0827 (2013.01);
Abstract
In some embodiments, the invention involves a system and method relating to secure booting of a platform. In at least one embodiment, the present invention is intended to securely boot a platform using one or more signature keys stored in a secure location on the platform, where access to the signature is by a microcontroller on the platform and the host processor has no direct access to alter the signature key. Other embodiments are described and claimed.