US 11,943,337 B2
Secure reliable application environments
Michael Tsirkin, Westford, MA (US)
Assigned to Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US)
Filed by Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US)
Filed on Feb. 17, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/111,491.
Application 18/111,491 is a continuation of application No. 16/910,600, filed on Jun. 24, 2020, granted, now 11,588,623.
Prior Publication US 2023/0246813 A1, Aug. 3, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04L 9/08 (2006.01); G06F 9/445 (2018.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01); H04L 9/32 (2006.01)
CPC H04L 9/0819 (2013.01) [G06F 9/445 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); H04L 9/0894 (2013.01); H04L 9/3226 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45587 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system comprising:
an application environment instance;
a first cloud service of a first cloud provider, wherein the first cloud service is configured to:
receive an encrypted disk image, wherein the first cloud provider has access to the encrypted disk image, and
launch the application environment instance;
a second cloud service of a second cloud provider configured to:
launch a first attestation service instance from an attestation disk image, wherein the attestation disk image includes a secret, and the second cloud provider has access to the secret, and
provide the secret to the application environment instance;
wherein the second cloud service provides the secret to the application environment instance.