Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Firmware verification mechanism
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Application No.: US16832152Application Date: 2020-03-27
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Publication No.: US11409877B2Publication Date: 2022-08-09
- Inventor: Prashant Dewan , Chao Zhang , Nivedita Aggarwal , Aditya Katragada , Mohamed Haniffa , Kenji Chen
- Applicant: Intel Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Jaffery Watson Mendonsa & Hamilton LLP
- Main IPC: G06F21/57
- IPC: G06F21/57 ; G06F8/65 ; G06F21/64 ; G06F21/44

Abstract:
An apparatus to verify firmware in a computing system, comprising a non-volatile memory, including firmware memory to store agent firmware associated with each of a plurality of interconnect protocol (IP) agents and version memory to store security version numbers (SVNs) included in the agent firmware, a security controller comprising verifier logic to verify an integrity of the version memory by applying a hash algorithm to contents of the version memory to generate a SVN hash, and a trusted platform module (TPM) to store the SVN hash.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200226261A1 FIRMWARE VERIFICATION MECHANISM Public/Granted day:2020-07-16
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