HP ProtectTools Security Manager

HP ProtectTools Firmware security features in HP Compaq business notebooks

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Anonymous and Publicly Linkable Reputation Systems

We consider reputation systems where users are allowed to rate products that they purchased previously. To obtain trustworthy reputations, they are allowed to rate these products only once. As long as they do so, the users stay anonymous. Everybody is able to detect users deviating from the rate-products-only-once policy and the anonymity of such dishonest users can be revoked by a system manag...

Anonymous and Publicly Linkable Reputation Systems (Short Paper)

We consider reputation systems where users are allowed to rate products that they purchased previously. To obtain trustworthy reputations, they are allowed to rate these products only once. As long as they do so, the users stay anonymous. Everybody is able to detect users deviating from the rate-products-only-once policy and the anonymity of such dishonest users can be revoked by a system manag...

Toward Self-Managing Systems

System management, now mainly a manual process based on individual knowledge and experience of administrators, is now very time-consuming, inefficient, and error-prone. This paper proposes an open framework to design and implement self-managing systems that dramatically alleviates the burden of system administrators and improves the security and stability of systems. To be machineprocessable, s...