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Real-time secure self-acquiring root authority

US8473753B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

Eric Kass · Mannheim, DE
Joachim Kern · Elsenfeld, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Sep 9, 2011
Grant date	Jun 25, 2013
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Dec 21, 2031

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F21/33
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

When software is delivered to a customer, there are often programs or routines of programs that a software distributor intended to run under the credentials of a specific user other than the user who started the program. A secure method is proposed for software running in a process to acquire rights to issue restricted operations. A trusting entity trusts a process based on verifying ownership of code residing in the process. The trusted process is granted rights by the trusting entity to perform any or specific operations under the credentials of a specific user, not necessarily the current process user.

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