Patent ID: 9418027
Filing Date: 2016-08-16
CPC Classification: G01R,G06F,G09C,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions executable by a processor of an integrated circuit (IC) including a cryptography module, the storage medium comprising: instructions to retrieve, with the processor, secure boot information including secure boot instructions and validation data for the secure boot information from storage external to the IC, wherein the processor is to retrieve the secure boot information via a cryptography module to decrypt the secure boot information stored in an encrypted format in the external storage; instructions to determine, with any one of a plurality of different validation techniques, whether the validation data is consistent with the decrypted secure boot information; instructions to determine which of the plurality of different validation techniques is specified in validation control data of the decrypted secure boot information; and instructions to boot a computing device including the IC with the secure boot instructions if it is determined, with the specified validation technique, that the validation data is consistent with the decrypted secure boot information.