Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Securely booting a computing device
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Application No.: US15300086Application Date: 2014-04-28
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Publication No.: US10248428B2Publication Date: 2019-04-02
- Inventor: Karunakara Kotary , Nicholas J. Yoke , Brett P. Wang , Genliu Xing
- Applicant: INTEL CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Barnes & Thornburg LLP
- International Application: PCT/CN2014/076348 WO 20140428
- International Announcement: WO2015/165000 WO 20151105
- Main IPC: G06F9/4401
- IPC: G06F9/4401 ; G06F21/57 ; G06F21/72 ; G06F3/06 ; G06F12/14 ; H04L9/32

Abstract:
Technologies for securely booting a computing device includes a security engine of the computing device that consecutively determines a hash value for each block of initial boot firmware and generates an aggregated hash value from the hash value determined for each of the blocks. A processor of the computing device determines whether the aggregated hash value matches a reference checksum value. Initialization of the processor is completed in response to a determination that the aggregated hash value matches the reference checksum value. In some embodiments, the security engine consecutively retrieves each block of the initial boot firmware from a memory of the computing device, stores each retrieved block in a secure memory of the security engine, and determines the hash value for each stored block. Each block stored in the secure memory is copied to a portion of a cache memory of the processor initialized as Cache as RAM.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170147356A1 SECURELY BOOTING A COMPUTING DEVICE Public/Granted day:2017-05-25
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