Remote Platform Attestation: The Testimony for Trust Manageement

Publication Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

1-2010

Abstract

One of the key mechanisms for trust establishment among different platforms is remote attestation, which allows a platform to vouch for its trust related characteristics to a remote challenger. In this chapter, the authors propose a new conceptual model for remote attestation consisting of four basic ingredients: root of trust, attestation objective, object measurement, and attestation process. With this model, they present a systematic study on the remote attestation, including the methodologies applied for implementing the four elements and the principles for designing an attestation scheme. The authors also examine existing remote attestation schemes in the literature by grouping them into two main types: integrity attestation and quality attestation. They discuss both the strength and the limitations of each type of scheme and explain how they can be applied in trust management in distributed environment.

Discipline

Information Security

Research Areas

Information Security and Trust

Publication

Trust Modelling and Management in Digital Environments: From Social Concept to System Development

First Page

1

Last Page

19

ISBN

9781615206827

Identifier

10.4018/978-1-61520-682-7.ch001

Publisher

IGI Global

City or Country

Hershey, PA

Additional URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61520-682-7.ch001

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