Recovery request
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsErich Wolfgang Gestacker McMillan, Tevin Jaupaul Richards, Baraneedharan Anbazhagan
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Abstract
An example storage medium is described, wherein the storage medium comprises instructions that, when executed cause a processor of an electronic device to store authentication data in a first memory of the electronic device. Upon detecting a failure to decrypt information, the processor is to perform an authentication with a webservice, receive a recovery code, and input the recovery code to a recovery service. The recovery code is obscured from the user.
Claims15
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions that when executed cause a processor of an electronic device to:
- store authentication data in a first memory of the electronic device;
- detect, during a boot process of the electronic device, a failure to decrypt data stored in a second memory;
- in response to detecting the failure, connect to a webservice via a network connection;
- provide, via the network connection, an authentication credential to the webservice using the stored authentication data;
- receive, via the network connection, a recovery code from the webservice, wherein the recovery code is provided based on a recovery request from another electronic device;
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- input the recovery code to a recovery service using a virtual keystroke in a manner that the recovery code is obscured from a user, wherein the recovery service is to decrypt the data stored in the second memory.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions that when executed cause a processor of an electronic device to:
- receive, via a first network connection, a request for a recovery code from a first device;
- in response to the request, transmit an authentication request to a second device via a second network connection,
- receive a response from the second device via the second network connection, wherein the response is to authenticate an identity of the second device;
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- upon successful authentication of the second device, transmit the recovery code to the second device via the second network connection.
An electronic device comprising a first memory, a second memory, a first processor, and a second processor, wherein the first processor is to:
- store identification data in the first memory;
- detect, during a boot process of the electronic device, a failure to decrypt data stored in the second memory;
- in response to detecting the failure, connect to a remote server via a network connection;
- receive an authentication request from the remote server, wherein the authentication request is generated based on a recovery request from another electronic device;
- provide, via the network connection, information identifying the electronic device to the remote server using the stored identification data;
- receive, via the network connection, access data from the remote server;
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- input the access data to the second processor using a virtual keystroke in a manner that the access data is obscured from a user, wherein the second processor is to decrypt the data stored in the second memory using the access data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.