Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Systems and methods to build a trusted hypertext transfer protocol secure session on a limited pre-boot basic input/output system environment
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Application No.: US16041541Application Date: 2018-07-20
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Publication No.: US10693664B2Publication Date: 2020-06-23
- Inventor: Purushothama R. Malluru , Christopher Channing Griffin , Chris Edward Pepper , Ibrahim Sayyed , Alok Pant
- Applicant: Dell Products L.P.
- Applicant Address: US TX Round Rock
- Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
- Current Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Round Rock
- Agency: Baker Botts L.L.P.
- Main IPC: H04L29/06
- IPC: H04L29/06 ; H04L9/32 ; G06F21/33 ; G06F21/57 ; H04L29/08

Abstract:
Systems and methods to build a trusted HTTPS session on a limited pre-boot BIOS environment in an information handling system. The information handling system may include a BIOS that may be stored in a secure read-only region of a flash storage. The BIOS may download signed certification authority (CA) information from a server based on a target location that may be stored at the secure read-only region. The BIOS may authenticate the signed CA information based on a public key that may be stored at the secure read-only region. The BIOS may, when the signed CA information is authenticated, download a root CA chain from the server and authenticate the root CA chain. The BIOS may, when the root CA chain is authenticated, establish a secure encrypted transport layer security (TLS) session with the server based the root CA chain.
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