Securing a Firm’s Computer Operating System: Trusted Platform Module
نویسنده
چکیده
Recently Trusted Platform Module (TPM) is emerged as a new solution to secure computers and other systems. It is a small microchip that enables encryption and stores authentication information in computer motherboard. This paper presents the initiative of trust computing and an overview of TPM along with architecture and security features. We also discuss the applications and future of TPM. In summary, the TPM is becoming a viable and recognized approach for implementing security controls for embedded systems. With strong vendor adoption, the potential of TPM is tremendous and the continued development of TPM is
منابع مشابه
Construction of Trusted Computing Platform Based on Android System
With the widespread use of Android mobile phones, the problems of security of phone become increasingly prominent. The Java technology architecture for trusted computing is a trend to solve the above problems. Through the analysis of the current Java platform trusted computing architecture and the security of Android operating system, the trusted platform architecture based on Android and Java ...
متن کاملRemote attestation on legacy operating systems with trusted platform modules 1
A lot of progress has been made to secure network communication, e.g., through the use of cryptographic algorithms. However, this offers only a partial solution as long as the communicating end points still suffer from security problems. A number of applications require remote verification of software executing on an untrusted platform. Trusted computing solutions propose to solve this problem ...
متن کاملA TCM-Enabled Access Control Scheme
Trusted Cryptography Supporting Platform is a computer platform with high dependable and available software and hardware, within which security mechanism is reliable and robust because some encryption/decryption, authentication techniques are adopted upon the operating system based on the trusted platform module in a chip or ARM board. USB disk is a popular, flexible, removable storage device b...
متن کاملAn Open Trusted Computing Architecture — Secure Virtual Machines Enabling User-Defined Policy Enforcement
Virtualization of computers enables a wide variety of applications ranging from server consolidation to secure sandboxing of malicious content. Today, lack of security of virtual machines is a major obstacle for broad adoption of virtual machine technology. We address this obstacle by an open architecture that adds scalable trusted computing concepts to a virtual machine infrastructure. The pla...
متن کاملRemote Attestation on Legacy Operating Systems With Trusted Platform Modules
A lot of progress has been made to secure network communication, e.g., through the use of cryptographic algorithms. However, this offers only a partial solution as long as the communicating end points still suffer from security problems. A number of applications require remote verification of software executing on an untrusted platform. Trusted computing solutions propose to solve this problem ...
متن کامل