Method and apparatus for remotely provisioning software-based security coprocessors

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9501665-B2
Application number	US-201514723910-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 28, 2015
Priority date	May 13, 2005
Publication date	Nov 22, 2016
Grant date	Nov 22, 2016

Abstract

A virtual security coprocessor is created in a first processing system. The virtual security coprocessor is then transferred to a second processing system, for use by the second processing system. For instance, the second processing system may use the virtual security coprocessor to provide attestation for the second processing system. In an alternative embodiment, a virtual security coprocessor from a first processing system is received at a second processing system. After receiving the virtual security coprocessor from the first processing system, the second processing system uses the virtual security coprocessor. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. At least one non-transitory machine-readable storage medium including instructions that if executed cause a first processing system to:
create a virtual trusted platform module for a virtual machine of the first processing system;
facilitate creation of a credential for the virtual trusted platform module, wherein the credential is to be stored in a first storage location;
suspend the virtual trusted platform module and store a state of the virtual trust…

Assignees

• Intel Corp

Inventors

• Scarlata Vincent R

Classifications

• H04L9/08

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L63/0428

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G06F2009/45583

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F2009/45595

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04L9/0897

  Electricity · mapped topic