Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Exposing cryptographic measurements of peripheral component interconnect express (PCIe) device controller firmware
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Application No.: US15836225Application Date: 2017-12-08
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Publication No.: US11522679B2Publication Date: 2022-12-06
- Inventor: Mahesh Natu , Adrian Pearson
- Applicant: Intel Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.
- Main IPC: H04L9/06
- IPC: H04L9/06 ; G06F13/40 ; G06F8/70 ; G06F21/62 ; G06F21/57 ; H04L9/32

Abstract:
Examples disclosed herein include are computing device hardware components, computing devices, systems, machine-readable mediums, and interconnect protocols that provide for code object measurement of a peripheral device and a method for accessing the measurements to verify integrity across a computing interconnect (e.g., Peripheral Component Interconnect Express—PCIe). For example, a cryptographic processor of a PCIe endpoint (such as a peripheral) may take a measurement (e.g., computing a hash value) of a code object on the device prior to executing the code object. This measurement may be placed in a register that is accessible to another component, such as a host operating system across a PCIe bus for interrogation. The host operating system may utilize an interconnect protocol, such as a PCIe protocol to access the measurement. These measurements may be consumed by a Trusted Platform Manager or other components of a host system that may verify the measurements.
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