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Trusted Computing Platforms

Design and Applications

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  • © 2005

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Authors:
  1. Sean W. Smith

    1. Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA

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  • Work in this area is both important and timely. It is the basis of research on secure devices ranging from high-end smart cards to the Java buttons to secure operating systems, secure financial systems, and even systems as diverse as those protecting homeland security information
  • One point that is especially timely will be in the last chapter, where the author discusses future directions and the emerging steps of NGSCB
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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Introduction

    Pages 1-7

  3. Motivating Scenarios

    Pages 9-18

  4. Attacks

    Pages 19-42

  5. Foundations

    Pages 43-53

  6. Design Challenges

    Pages 55-71

  7. Platform Architecture

    Pages 73-99

  8. Outbound Authentication

    Pages 101-121

  9. Validation

    Pages 123-139

  10. Application Case Studies

    Pages 141-171

  11. TCPA/TCG

    Pages 173-181

  12. Experimenting with TCPA/TCG

    Pages 183-194

  13. New Horizons

    Pages 195-209

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 211-239
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How can one trust computation taking place at a remote site, particularly if a party at that site might have motivation to subvert this trust? In recent years, industrial efforts have advanced the notion of a "trusted computing platform" as a building block. Through a conspiracy of hardware and software magic, these platforms attempt to solve this remote trust problem, to preserve various critical properties against various types of adversaries.

However, these current efforts are just points on a larger continuum, which ranges from earlier work on secure coprocessor design and applications, through TCPA/TCG, to recent academic developments. Without wading through stacks of theses and research literature, the general computer science reader cannot see this big picture.

Trusted Computing Platforms: Design and Applications fills this gap. Starting with early prototypes and proposed applications, this book surveys the longer history of amplifying small amounts of hardware security into broader system security – and reports real case study experience with security architecture and applications on multiple types of platforms. The author examines the theory, design, and implementation of the IBM 4758 secure coprocessor platform and discusses real case study applications that exploit the unique capabilities of this platform. The author discusses how these foundations grow into newer industrial designs, and discusses alternate architectures and case studies of applications that this newer hardware can enable. The author closes with an examination of more recent cutting-edge experimental work in this area.

Trusted Computing Platforms: Design and Applications is written for security architects, application designers, and the general computer scientist interested in the evolution and uses of this emerging technology.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA

    Sean W. Smith

About the author

Sean Smith is currently on the faculty of the Department of Computer Science at Dartmouth College, serves as director of the Cyber Security and Trust Research Center at Dartmouth's Institute for Security Technology Studies, and also serves as Principal Investigator of the Dartmouth PKI Lab.  His current research and teaching focus on how to build trustworthy systems in the real world.  He previously worked as a scientist at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, doing secure coprocessor design, implementation and validation; and at Los Alamos National Laboratory, doing security designs and analyses for a wide range of public-sector clients.  Dr. Smith was educated at Princeton (B.A., Math) and Carnegie Mellon (M.S., Ph.D., Computer Science).

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