Recovery from lost credentials for pre-boot authentication
AssigneeQuick Heal Technologies Limited
InventorNiraj Kumar Jha
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Abstract
A digital processing system receives, in a pre-boot duration, an indication from a user to retrieve a credential required for booting the digital processing system. The digital processing system connects, in the pre-boot duration, to a user device and retrieves, in the pre-boot duration, the credential from an external server using the user device. Booting is thereafter continued. In an embodiment, a BIOS (basic input/output system) software performs the receiving, the connecting, the retrieving, and completes the booting upon initialization of the digital processing system.
Claims20
A method performed in a digital processing system, said method comprising:
- receiving, in a pre-boot duration, an indication from a user to retrieve a credential required for booting said digital processing system;
- connecting, in said pre-boot duration, to a user device;
- retrieving, in said pre-boot duration, said credential from an external server using said user device;
- and
- continuing with a booting process after receipt of said credential.
A non-transitory machine readable storage medium storing one or more sequences of instructions, wherein execution of said one or more instructions by one or more processors contained in a digital processing system enables the digital processing system to perform the actions of:
- receiving, in a pre-boot duration, an indication from a user to retrieve a credential required for booting said digital processing system;
- connecting, in said pre-boot duration, to a user device;
- retrieving, in said pre-boot duration, said credential from an external server using said user device;
- and
- continuing with a booting process after receipt of said credential.
A digital processing system comprising:
- a random access memory (RAM) to store instructions;
- one or more processors to retrieve said instructions and execute said instructions, wherein execution of said instructions causes said digital processing system to perform the actions of:
- receiving, in a pre-boot duration, an indication from a user to retrieve a credential required for booting said digital processing system;
- connecting, in said pre-boot duration, to a user device;
- retrieving, in said pre-boot duration, said credential from an external server using said user device;
- and
- continuing with a booting process after receipt of said credential.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.