Method, Apparatus, and Product for Providing a Scalable Trusted Platform Module in a Hypervisor Environment

• Main Authors: BADE STEVEN A, KELLEY NIA LETISE, GAINEY, JR. CHARLES W, SUTTER SIEGFRIED, WEBER HELMUT H, DEWKETT THOMAS J, ARNDT RICHARD LOUIS
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 18.02.2010
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRICITY; PHYSICS; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION

A method, apparatus, and computer program product are described for implementing a trusted computing environment within a data processing system where the data processing system includes a single hardware trusted platform module (TPM). Multiple logical partitions are provided in the data processing...