Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Remote attestation of host devices
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Application No.: US15483227Application Date: 2017-04-10
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Publication No.: US10241804B2Publication Date: 2019-03-26
- Inventor: Nachiketh Rao Potlapally , Rachit Chawla , Jeremy Ryan Volkman , Michael David Marr
- Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US WA Seattle
- Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- Current Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Seattle
- Agency: Hogan Lovells US LLP
- Main IPC: G06F11/14
- IPC: G06F11/14 ; G06F9/4401 ; G06F21/57

Abstract:
Approaches are described for enabling a host computing device to store credentials and other security information useful for recovering the state of the host computing device in a secure store, such as a trusted platform module (TPM) on the host computing device. When recovering the host computing device in the event of a failure (e.g., power outage, network failure, etc.), the host computing device can obtain the necessary credentials from the secure store and use those credentials to boot various services, restore the state of the host and perform various other functions. In addition, the secure store (e.g., TPM) may provide boot firmware measurement and remote attestation of the host computing devices to other devices on a network, such as when the recovering host needs to communicate with the other devices on the network.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170255472A1 REMOTE ATTESTATION OF HOST DEVICES Public/Granted day:2017-09-07
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