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- Patent Title: Enhanced secure boot
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Application No.: US16336422Application Date: 2016-09-26
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Publication No.: US10885199B2Publication Date: 2021-01-05
- Inventor: Jiewen Yao , Rangasai V. Chaganty , Xiang Ma , Ravi Poovalur Rangarajan , Rajesh Poornachandran , Nivedita Aggarwal , Giri P. Mudusuru , Vincent J. Zimmer , Satya P. Yarlagadda , Amy Chan , Sudeep Das
- Applicant: McAfee, LLC
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: McAfee, LLC
- Current Assignee: McAfee, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agency: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC
- International Application: PCT/CN2016/100172 WO 20160926
- International Announcement: WO2018/053855 WO 20180329
- Main IPC: H04L29/06
- IPC: H04L29/06 ; G06F21/57

Abstract:
A pre-boot initialization technique for a computing system allows for encrypting both a manufacturer and original equipment manufacturer firmware routines, as well as handing off data between the manufacturer and original equipment manufacturer firmware routines encrypted with a key provisioned in field programmable fuses with an original equipment manufacturer key. By encrypting the firmware routines and handoff data, security of the pre-boot initialization process is enhanced. Original equipment manufacturer updatable product data may also be encrypted with the original equipment manufacturer key. Additional security may be provided by using trusted input/output capabilities of a trusted execution environment to display information to and receive information from a user. Furthermore, multiple secure phases of configuration may be achieved using wireless credentials exchange components.
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