Patent ID: 8433898
Filing Date: 2013-04-30
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: receiving a trust information object (TIO), wherein the TIO comprises a plurality of hash values and associated trust bits, wherein the plurality of hash values are generated from hashing a public key portion of a plurality of trust entity certificates and the associated trust bits for each hash value indicate a level of trust for an entity associated with the corresponding trust entity certificate; attempting to load first data from a computing device; receiving a plurality of unverified certificates from the computing device; hashing a public key portion of each of the plurality of unverified certificates to generate a plurality of digests; comparing each of the generated digests against the plurality of hash values found within the TIO to determine if each of the generated digests is found in the TIO; and when each of the generated digests is found in the TIO and a first associated trust bit of each of the plurality of unverified certificates indicates that the computing device has a predetermined level of trust for an intended operation, loading the first data and executing a script from the first data related to the intended operation.