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Provisioning keys for virtual machine secure enclaves

US10338957B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Intel Corporation · US

Inventors

Vincent R. Scarlata · Beaverton, US
Carlos V. Rozas · Portland, US
Simon P. Johnson · Beaverton, US
Francis X. McKeen · Portland, US
Mona Vij · Hillsboro, US
Somnath Chakrabarti · Portland, US
Brandon Baker · Portland, US
Ittai Anati · Ramat HaSharon, IL
Ilya Alexandrovich · Haifa, IL

Key dates

Filing date	Dec 27, 2016
Grant date	Jul 2, 2019
Priority date	—
Expiry date	May 29, 2037

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F2009/45587
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A secure migration enclave is provided to identify a launch of a particular virtual machine on a host computing system, where the particular virtual machine is launched to include a secure quoting enclave to perform an attestation of one or more aspects of the virtual machine. A root key for the particular virtual machine is generated using the secure migration enclave hosted on the host computing system for use in association with provisioning the secure quoting enclave with an attestation key to be used in the attestation. The migration enclave registers the root key with a virtual machine registration service.

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