US Patent Issued to Red Hat on May 20 for "Attesting on-the-fly encrypted root disks for confidential virtual machines" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,932, issued on May 20, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Attesting on-the-fly encrypted root disks for confidential virtual machines" was invented by Daniel Pierres Berrange (Farnborough, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Responsive to a request for an encrypted confidential virtual machine (CVM) disk image, an unencrypted CVM disk image, an image signature, and a public key associated with the image signature is obtained. The CVM disk image is encrypted to produce an encrypted CVM disk image. Full disk encryption (FDE) is applied against the encrypted CVM disk image to obtain an FDE header. A concatenation of...