Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Security processor for an embedded system
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Application No.: US15903227Application Date: 2018-02-23
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Publication No.: US10719606B2Publication Date: 2020-07-21
- Inventor: Oscar David Sanchez Diaz , Jurijus Cizas , Jeffrey Kelley , Mark Stafford
- Applicant: Infineon Technologies AG
- Applicant Address: DE Neubiberg
- Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
- Current Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
- Current Assignee Address: DE Neubiberg
- Agency: Schiff Hardin LLP
- Main IPC: G06F21/57
- IPC: G06F21/57 ; G06F21/51 ; G06F21/60 ; G06F21/64 ; G06F11/14 ; G06F21/44 ; G06F9/445

Abstract:
Dynamic Trust Manager (DTM) having an interface coupled to an embedded system including an Application Processor (AP), boot media, and security processor. The security processor, at a start of a boot sequence of the AP, prevents the AP from proceeding with the boot sequence, verifies bootloader code stored in the boot media via boot media access, and if the bootloader code verification is successful, allows the AP to proceed using the verified bootloader code. The security processor may also be configured to activate an interrupt request of the AP during runtime, request the AP to execute a Security Monitor Driver (SMD) of the embedded system to measure an integrity information of code/data stored in an embedded system memory, receive from the SMD the measured integrity information of code/data, and verify whether the measured integrity information equals a reference integrity information stored in an integrity table of a DTM memory.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190266331A1 SECURITY PROCESSOR FOR AN EMBEDDED SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2019-08-29
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