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US 6,748,538 B1Granted
Integrity scanner
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsKeen W. Chan, Nai-Chi M. Chu
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Abstract
A platform featuring memory which contains a plurality of software components and a manifest which includes a digest of each of the plurality of the software components and a processor which is coupled to the memory. The processor executes a hash function to produce the manifest and to verify integrity of the plurality of software components by re-computing digests of the plurality of software components and comparing the computed digests with the digests of the manifest.
Claims19
An apparatus comprising:
- a memory to contain a plurality of software components and a manifest including a digest of each of the plurality of the software components;
- and
- a processor coupled to the memory, the processor to execute a separate hash function on each of the plurality of software components to produce each digest included in the manifest, and to verify integrity of the plurality of software components by re-computing digests of the plurality of software components and comparing the computed digests with the digests of the manifest.
A method comprising:
- producing a manifest associated with a plurality of stored software components by executing a separate hash function on each of the plurality of stored software components;
- storing the manifest;
- and
- verifying the integrity of the plurality of software components in response to an event.
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An article comprising:
- a computer readable medium having instructions thereon which when executed cause a computer to:
- produce a manifest associated with a plurality of software components stored within the platform by executing a separate hash function on each of the plurality of software components;
- store the manifest;
- and
- verify the integrity of the plurality of software components in response to an event.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.