Secure boot of virtualized computing instances

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9953168
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15633685

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In an approach, a secure boot process includes two phases. In the first phase an on premises device generates a data encryption key (DEK) with which to encrypt an operating system image and a key encryption key (KEK) with which to wrap the DEK. The on-premises device then utilizes a key management service to wrap the KEK with an account root key and writes the wrapped DEK and wrapped KEK onto a label of the encrypted operating system image. The encrypted operating system image is then uploaded to a virtual data center and merged with an intermediary guest manager image. When the encrypted machine image is used to generate a virtual machine instance, the intermediary guest manager utilizes the key management service to unwrap the KEK. The unwrapped KEK is then used to unwrap the wrapped DEK which is then used to launch the encrypted guest operating system.

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  • BRACKET COMPUTING, INC.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Bahadur, Nitin Santa Clara, US 22 1192
Cain, Adam Eugene, US 9 238
Edwards, John K Sunnyvale, US 67 2899
George, Kevin San Jose, US 80 964
Lango, Jason A Mountain View, US 16 458
McGovern, William San Jose, US 9 96
Tucker, Andrew G Portola Valley, US 25 756

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