TY - GEN
T1 - Software based remote attestation for OS kernel and user applications
AU - Srinivasan, Raghunathan
AU - Dasgupta, Partha
AU - Gohad, Tushar
PY - 2011/12/1
Y1 - 2011/12/1
N2 - This paper describes a software based remote attestation scheme for providing a root of trust on an untrusted computing platform. To provide a root of trust, this work focuses on obtaining the integrity of the OS running on the platform, and then leverages the techniques to obtain the integrity of a user application. A trusted external entity issues a challenge to the client platform. The challenge is executable code which the client must execute, and the code generates results which are sent to the external entity. These results provide the external entity an assurance as to whether the client application and the OS at the client end are in pristine condition. This work also presents a technique where it can be verified that the application which was attested, did not get replaced by a different application once the challenge got completed.
AB - This paper describes a software based remote attestation scheme for providing a root of trust on an untrusted computing platform. To provide a root of trust, this work focuses on obtaining the integrity of the OS running on the platform, and then leverages the techniques to obtain the integrity of a user application. A trusted external entity issues a challenge to the client platform. The challenge is executable code which the client must execute, and the code generates results which are sent to the external entity. These results provide the external entity an assurance as to whether the client application and the OS at the client end are in pristine condition. This work also presents a technique where it can be verified that the application which was attested, did not get replaced by a different application once the challenge got completed.
KW - Code injection
KW - Device drivers
KW - Integrity measurement
KW - Remote attestation
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U2 - 10.1109/PASSAT/SocialCom.2011.76
DO - 10.1109/PASSAT/SocialCom.2011.76
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84856170127
SN - 9780769545783
T3 - Proceedings - 2011 IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust and IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, PASSAT/SocialCom 2011
SP - 1048
EP - 1055
BT - Proceedings - 2011 IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust and IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, PASSAT/SocialCom 2011
T2 - 2011 IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust, PASSAT 2011 and 2011 IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, SocialCom 2011
Y2 - 9 October 2011 through 11 October 2011
ER -