Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Cryptographic memory ownership table for secure public cloud
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Application No.: US16830379Application Date: 2020-03-26
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Publication No.: US11520906B2Publication Date: 2022-12-06
- Inventor: David M. Durham , Siddhartha Chhabra , Ravi L. Sahita , Barry E. Huntley , Gilbert Neiger , Gideon Gerzon , Baiju V. Patel
- Applicant: Intel Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.C.
- Main IPC: G06F21/60
- IPC: G06F21/60 ; G06F3/06 ; G06F12/1009 ; G06F21/57 ; G06F21/53

Abstract:
A computer-readable medium comprises instructions that, when executed, cause a processor to execute an untrusted workload manager to manage execution of at least one guest workload. The instructions, when executed, also cause the processor to (i) receive a request from a guest workload managed by the untrusted workload manager to access a memory using a requested guest address; (ii) obtain, from the untrusted workload manager, a translated workload manager-provided hardware physical address to correspond to the requested guest address; (iii) determine whether a stored mapping exists for the translated workload manager-provided hardware physical address; (iv) in response to finding the stored mapping, determine whether a stored expected guest address from the stored mapping matches the requested guest address; and (v) if the stored expected guest address from the stored mapping matches the requested guest address, enable the guest workload to access contents of the translated workload-manager provided hardware physical address.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200293668A1 Cryptographic Memory Ownership Table For Secure Public Cloud Public/Granted day:2020-09-17
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