Attesting to a value of a register and/or memory region

Details Attesting to a value of a register and/or memory region Attesting to a value of a register and/or memory region

2008-04-08

2008-04-08

Vu, Kim (Department: 2135)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support

Digital data processing system initialization or configuration

Loading initialization program

C713S001000, C711S103000, C711S164000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07356682

ABSTRACT:
In accordance with one aspect of attesting to a value of a register and/or memory region, an operating system of a device receives a request, in response to an ATTEST operation being invoked, to make a signed attestation of a value. The operating system signs a statement that includes the value using a private key of a pair of public and private keys of a processor of the device. The value may be stored in a register and/or a region of memory.

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