Device certificate self-individualization
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsBenjamin Cutter, Clifford Strom, Brian Evans, Amit Jain, Michael Siu
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Abstract
Generating a device certificate. A method of generating a device certificate comprising forming a template that will generate a device certificate upon the occurrence of a triggering event, filling in an authorization root certificate section of the template; filling in an authorization certificate section of the template, filling in a group certificate section of the template, and forming a device certificate section of the template.
Claims21
A method for generating a device certificate template from a route of trust comprising:
- generating a template section for each link of a plurality of links in the route of trust.
A method of generating a device certificate comprising:
- forming a template that will create the device certificate upon the occurrence of a triggering event;
- filling in an authorization root certificate section of the template;
- filling in an authorization certificate section of the template;
- filling in a group certificate section of the template;
- and
- creating a device certificate section of the template.
A consumer electronics device comprising:
- a license disposed on the consumer electronics device;
- an encrypted file disposed on the consumer electronics device;
- and
- a device certificate template disposed on the consumer electronics device.
A consumer electronics device produced by the process comprising:
- loading an authorization root certificate onto a memory of a consumer electronics device at manufacture;
- loading an authorization certificate onto a memory of a consumer electronics device at manufacture;
- loading a group certificate onto a memory of a consumer electronics device at manufacture;
- and
- pre loading information to cause the creation of a device certificate from the authorization root certificate, the authorization certificate, and the group certificate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.