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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2016
Filed:
May. 06, 2011
Jan-erik Ekberg, Vantaa, FI;
Harald Kaaja, Järvenpää, FI;
Jan-Erik Ekberg, Vantaa, FI;
Harald Kaaja, Järvenpää, FI;
Nokia Technologies Oy, Espoo, FI;
Abstract
A method including determining a public identifier for identifying a configuration of an apparatus, determining a common configuration certificate comprising a common configuration certificate identifier for verifying programming data, and determining a hardware certificate comprising the public identifier and the common configuration certificate identifier for associating a permitted combination of the apparatus configuration and the programming data. Furthermore, the method includes generating a dedicated package of the hardware certificates corresponding to the apparatus configurations allowed to be provided, encrypting the dedicated package of the hardware certificates using a public key, and storing the encrypted dedicated package of the hardware certificates with an identifier to a passive memory of the apparatus.