METHOD FOR VERIFYING THE CONFIGURATION OF A COMPUTER SYSTEM

摘要

The invention relates to a method for verifying encrypted data being expressive of a configuration of a computer system, said computer system or a component thereof having an identifier, said method comprising the steps of encoding said data by an encoding method using said identifier as a key; encrypting said encoded data by an encryption method using a private key. For the decryption of the data a public key is used, preferably according to the RSA crypto system. The invention may also be used to enable functional characteristics of a computer system selectively.