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US 11,700,135 B2Granted
ISA accessible physical unclonable function
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsSiddhartha Chhabra, Prashant Dewan, Baiju Patel, Vedvyas Shanbhogue
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Abstract
Techniques for encrypting data using a key generated by a physical unclonable function (PUF) are described. An apparatus according to the present disclosure may include decoder circuitry to decode an instruction and generate a decoded instruction. The decoded instruction includes operands and an opcode. The opcode indicates that execution circuitry is to encrypt data using a key generated by a PUF. The apparatus may further include execution circuitry to execute the decoded instruction according to the opcode to encrypt the data to generate encrypted data using the key generated by the PUF.
Claims18
An apparatus comprising:
- decoder circuitry to decode an instance of a single instruction to generate a decoded instruction, the single instruction associated with a ring 0 protection level, the instance of the single instruction to include 1) one or more fields to identify a first destination operand, 2) one or more fields to identify a second destination operand, the second destination operand is to either store an output data structure having decrypted data after execution of the instruction, or a location to store an encrypted data structure having decrypted data after execution of the instruction, 3) one or more fields to identify a source operand, wherein the source operand is to either store an input data structure to be used in an decryption process or a location of an input data structure to be used in an decryption process, and 4) one more fields comprising an opcode, the opcode to indicate that execution circuitry is to at least encrypt secret information from the input data structure with a physical unclonable function (PUF) generated encryption key, bind the wrapped secret information to a target, update the input data structure, generate a MAC over the updated data structure, store the MAC in the input data structure to generate a wrapped output data structure, store the wrapped output data structure having the encrypted secret information and an indication of the target according to usage of the second destination operand's for the instruction;
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- execution circuitry to execute the decoded instruction according to the opcode.
A method comprising:
- decoding a single instruction to generate a decoded instruction, the single instruction associated with a ring 0 protection level and the decoded instruction including 1) one or more fields to identify a first destination operand, 2) one or more fields to identify a second destination operand, the second destination operand is to either store an output data structure having decrypted data after execution of the instruction, or a location to store an encrypted data structure having decrypted data after execution of the instruction, 3) one or more fields to identify a source operand, wherein the source operand is to either store an input data structure to be used in an decryption process or a location of an input data structure to be used in an decryption process, and 4) one more fields comprising an opcode, the opcode to indicate that execution circuitry is to at least encrypt secret information from the input data structure with a physical unclonable function (PUF) generated encryption key, bind the wrapped secret information to a target, update the input data structure, generate a MAC over the updated data structure, store the MAC in the input data structure to generate a wrapped output data structure, store the wrapped output data structure having the encrypted secret information and an indication of the target according to usage of the second destination operand for the instruction;
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- executing the decoded instruction according to the opcode.
A non-transitory machine-readable medium storing an instance of a single instruction that, when processed by one or more processors, is cause the one or more processors to:
- decode the instance of the single instruction to generate a decoded instruction, the single instruction associated with a ring 0 protection level and the decoded instruction including 1) one or more fields to identify a first destination operand, 2) one or more fields to identify a second destination operand, the second destination operand is to either store an output data structure having decrypted data after execution of the instruction, or a location to store an encrypted data structure having decrypted data after execution of the instruction, 3) one or more fields to identify a source operand, wherein the source operand is to either store an input data structure to be used in an decryption process or a location of an input data structure to be used in an decryption process, and 4) one more fields comprising an opcode, the opcode to indicate that execution circuitry is to at least encrypt secret information from the input data structure with a physical unclonable function (PUF) generated encryption key, bind the wrapped secret information to a target, update the input data structure, generate a MAC over the updated data structure, store the MAC in the input data structure to generate a wrapped output data structure, store the wrapped output data structure having the encrypted secret information and an indication of the target according to usage of the second destination operand for the instruction;
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- execute the decoded instruction according to the opcode.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.