Patent ID: 8549596

Claim:
A method for authenticating, by a trusted component, a user of a desktop appliance to a remote machine, the method comprising: executing, by a desktop appliance, a user interaction component, responsive to receiving a secure attention sequence from a user, wherein the secure attention sequence is a key combination of a control key, an alt key, and a delete key; receiving, by the user interaction component, authentication credentials associated with the user; receiving, by the user interaction component executed by the desktop appliance, a request for access to a hosted resource executing remotely and presented to the user as a resource executing locally; transmitting, by the desktop appliance, to a broker service, the received authentication credentials; authenticating, by the broker service, the user, responsive to the received authentication credentials; transmitting, by the broker service, to a remote machine, authentication data associated with the received authentication credentials; authenticating, by the remote machine, the user, responsive to the received authentication data; and providing, by the remote machine, to the desktop appliance, access to the hosted resource.