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Methods and systems for promoting security in a computer system employing attached storage devices

  • US 7,461,270 B2
  • Filed: 02/02/2006
  • Issued: 12/02/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/25/2001
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A storage device comprising:

  • a storage medium having a security partition containing at least one authority record and at least one data set associated with each of the authority records; and

    a mechanism within the storage device adapted to limit access to the security partition based on the at least authority record, wherein the mechanism comprises a processor disposed within the storage device and adapted to limit access to the security partition by an operating system of a computer system, based at least in part on authentication of a passcode and a signed nonce, which are received from the operating system and verified by the mechanism according to the at least one authority record.

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