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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2012
David Haikney, Manchester, GB;
David N. Mackintosh, Manchester, GB;
Jose J. P. Perez, Manchester, GB;
David Haikney, Manchester, GB;
David N. Mackintosh, Manchester, GB;
Jose J. P. Perez, Manchester, GB;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An attestation technique is provided for processing attestation data associated with a plurality of data processing systems. A first data processing system is operable for receiving a request for attestation from a requester. In response to receiving the request, the first data processing system is further operable for retrieving a list of one or more children, wherein the one or more children include the second data processing system; retrieving and storing attestation data associated with each of the one or more children; retrieving and storing attestation data associated with the first data processing system; and sending to the requester a concatenated response containing the attestation data associated with the first data processing system and the child attestation data associated with the one or more children.