18216436. HARDWARE-BASED CRYPTOGRAPHIC PROTECTION OF TOKENS (Intel Corporation)
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HARDWARE-BASED CRYPTOGRAPHIC PROTECTION OF TOKENS
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Inventor(s)
Anas Hlayhel of Gilbert AZ (US)
Santosh Ghosh of Hillsboro OR (US)
Sonal Waydande of Austin TX (US)
Matthew Wise of Santa Clara CA (US)
William Penner of Olympia WA (US)
Enrico Carrieri of Placerville CA (US)
HARDWARE-BASED CRYPTOGRAPHIC PROTECTION OF TOKENS
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18216436 titled 'HARDWARE-BASED CRYPTOGRAPHIC PROTECTION OF TOKENS
Original Abstract Submitted
An example of an apparatus may include first circuitry that is to be selectively locked and unlocked, second circuitry to process one or more tokens including an unlock token for the first circuitry, and hardware authentication circuitry to authenticate the unlock token for the first circuitry in response to a request from the second circuitry. The apparatus may further include hardware ungate circuitry to selectively gate and ungate one or more features of the first circuitry in response to an indication that the first circuitry is one of locked or unlocked. Other examples are disclosed and claimed.
