Patent ID: 7778422

Claim:
An out-of-band method implemented on a computing device having instructions executable by a processor for asynchronously establishing a secure association with a server node, the method comprising: generating a local public value and a local private value on a client node: in response to an attempt to remotely load an operating system by the client node, wherein a profile of the operating system is stored on the server node; or simultaneously with a generation of the local public value and the local private value on the server node; allowing a client node to exchange information for remotely loading an operating system from one node to another node; loading the operating system on the client node; storing the public value for configuration of the secure association on an out-of band computer-readable storage medium, wherein the stored public value is not used for authentication; transporting the out-of-band computer-readable storage medium to the server node to establish a trust relationship allowing for remotely loading the operating system on the client node from the server node, wherein a low level of trust is required as the trust relationship required between the client node and the server node is established by using a third party out-of-band entity; receiving from the server node a public value generated by the server node via the out-of-band computer-readable storage medium, wherein the public value generated by the server node is generated with a private value generated by the server node in response to receiving the public value from the client node; generating a secret value using the local private value in combination with the public value received from the server node; wherein the receiving is asynchronous to the generating the secret value; and producing the secret value as a function of a local private value; and sharing the secret value by encrypting the secret value using an imported public key value, the public key value imported via the out-of-band mechanism.