METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ESTABLISHING VIRTUAL ENDORSEMENT CREDENTIALS FOR DYNAMICALLY GENERATED ENDORSEMENT KEYS IN A TRUSTED COMPUTING PLATFORM, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING A PROGRAM

摘要

A method, apparatus and computer program product in a data processing system for establishing a virtual endorsement certificate (virtual endorsement credential) is disclosed. The data processing system includes a hardware trusted platform module (trusted platform module, TPM). The logical partitions are created within the system. The different virtual TPM is generated for each logical partition. For each logical partition, virtual TPM generated for the logical partition is then dynamically generate a virtual endorsement certificate for use by a logical partition comprising a virtual TPM. Virtual endorsement certificate will not have a data processing system or a device to access a trusted third party that is external to the data processing system are generated in the data processing system.; Logical partitioning, virtual endorsement certificates, trusted computing platform, a virtual endorsement key