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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 26, 2013
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Luis Garcés-Erice, Rueschlikon, CH;
John G. Rooney, Rueschlikon, CH;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The present invention is notably directed to a user portable device (), preferably a secure tamper-proof device, comprising: a connection interface () enabling connection (S) with a computer (); a persistent memory (); and a bootloader () stored on said persistent memory (), preferably on a secure memory () of the device, wherein the bootloader (): is detectable (S) by a firmware () of the computer () upon connection (S) of the device () with said computer () via said connection interface; and comprises instructions for said firmware () to load (S) the bootloader () into a memory () of the computer () for subsequent execution (S); and to interact with the firmware, upon execution at the computer (), to: determine, in a physical storage medium () of said computer () storing a first host operating system (-) and a second host operating system (-) respectively on a first portion (-) and a second portion (-) thereof, said second portion (-), from partition information (-) of said physical storage medium, which partition information acknowledges the first host operating system but does not acknowledge the second host operating system; locate a part (BI) of the second host operating system (-) in the second portion (-); and execute said part (BI), whereby only the second one of the host operating systems can boot (S-S) from the user portable device (). The present invention is further directed to related systems and methods.