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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2013
Applicant:
Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p., Houston, TX (US);
Inventor:
Kimon Berlin, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/57 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/575 (2013.01); G06F 21/572 (2013.01);
Abstract
An example system in accordance with the present disclosure includes a secure hash calculation engine to intercept and calculate a secure hash for a pre-boot driver before the pre-boot driver is executed, wherein the pre-boot driver is executed based on the computed secure hash being successfully verified, and wherein the pre-boot driver is not executed based on the computed secure hash not being successfully verified.