Patent ID: 11902453
Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 9:
10. A non-transitory machine-readable medium including instructions which when executed on a processor cause the processor to implement operations comprising:
generate a transient code signing key pair (TKP) and a transient intermediate code Certificate Authority (CA) key pair (CKP);
issue a transient code signing CA Certificate for the TKP (TCACert), wherein the TCACert is signed with a CKPPriv;
sign each code artifact in a signing session with a TKPpriv;
embed a TCAcert in the software package;
approve production release of a production version of the software package;
delay-issue a CKPcert by using a product root CA public key; and
publish a CKPcert at a pre-defined location pointed-to by TCAcert embedding;
wherein the instructions, when cause the processor to delay production code signing for a heterogeneous artifacts of a pre-production version of a software package.