Patent ID: 6189100
Filing Date: 2001-02-13
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A computerized method for ensuring the integrity of remote boot client data comprising:obtaining, by a process executing on a client, credentials and presenting the credentials to a server;authenticating, by a process executing on the server, the credentials, and generating a secret, sealing the secret with the credentials, and sending the sealed secret to the client;receiving, by the client process, the sealed secret, and unsealing the secret, signing a file transfer request using the secret, and sending the signed file transfer request to the server;receiving, by the server process, the signed file transfer request, and verifying the file transfer request using the secret, sealing the requested files using the secret, and sending the sealed files to the client;receiving, by the client process, the sealed files;unsealing the files using the secret; andusing the files to boot the client.