US 12,111,932 B2
Secure boot attestation in a cloud platform
Srinivas Giri Raju Gowda, Fremont, CA (US); Shyamkumar T. Iyer, Cedar Park, TX (US); and Syama Sundar Poluri, Round Rock, TX (US)
Assigned to DELL PRODUCTS L.P., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed by Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed on Jul. 15, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/812,791.
Prior Publication US 2024/0020387 A1, Jan. 18, 2024
Int. Cl. G06F 21/57 (2013.01); G06F 8/61 (2018.01)
CPC G06F 21/575 (2013.01) [G06F 8/63 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system, comprising:
a processor; and
a memory coupled to the processor, comprising instructions that cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
receiving, in association with a user account, an operating system image that is encrypted with a private key, a manifest generated from a first instance of a manifest generator tool that is configured to identify system provisioning artifacts from installing the operating system image that is encrypted with the private key, and a public key that corresponds to the private key;
installing the operating system image on a computing device;
generating, with a second instance of the manifest generator tool, a first identification of system provisioning artifacts from the installing of the operating system image on the computing device; and
sending the first identification of system provisioning artifacts to an attestation service, wherein the attestation service is configured to compare the first identification of system provisioning artifacts with a second identification of system provisioning artifacts received in association with the user account, and send, for access via the user account, an indication of whether the first identification of system provisioning artifacts matches the second identification of system provisioning artifacts.