Towards Trust Services for Language-Based Virtual Machines for Grid Computing

Authors:
Tobias Vejda;Ronald Toegl;Martin Pirker;Thomas Winkler
Affiliations:
Institute for Applied Information Processing and Communications (IAIK), Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria A---8010;Institute for Applied Information Processing and Communications (IAIK), Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria A---8010;Institute for Applied Information Processing and Communications (IAIK), Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria A---8010;Institute for Applied Information Processing and Communications (IAIK), Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria A---8010
Venue:
Trust '08 Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Trusted Computing and Trust in Information Technologies: Trusted Computing - Challenges and Applications
Year:
2008

Citing 15
Cited 3

Multiparadigm communications in Java for grid computing

Communications of the ACM
Sealing, Encapsulation, and Mutability

ECOOP '01 Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming
Signing, Sealing, and Guarding Java Objects

Mobile Agents and Security
Property-based attestation for computing platforms: caring about properties, not mechanisms

NSPW '04 Proceedings of the 2004 workshop on New security paradigms
The Anatomy of the Grid: Enabling Scalable Virtual Organizations

International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications
PRIMA: policy-reduced integrity measurement architecture

Proceedings of the eleventh ACM symposium on Access control models and technologies
A protocol for property-based attestation

Proceedings of the first ACM workshop on Scalable trusted computing
Daonity: grid security with behaviour conformity from trusted computing

Proceedings of the first ACM workshop on Scalable trusted computing
Countering security threats in service-oriented on-demand grid computing using sandboxing and trusted computing techniques

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing - Special issue: Security in grid and distributed systems
Design and implementation of a TCG-based integrity measurement architecture

SSYM'04 Proceedings of the 13th conference on USENIX Security Symposium - Volume 13
Semantic remote attestation: a virtual machine directed approach to trusted computing

VM'04 Proceedings of the 3rd conference on Virtual Machine Research And Technology Symposium - Volume 3
Going beyond the sandbox: an overview of the new security architecture in the javaTM development Kit 1.2

USITS'97 Proceedings of the USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems on USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems
Realizing property-based attestation and sealing with commonly available hard- and software

Proceedings of the 2007 ACM workshop on Scalable trusted computing
A practical approach for establishing trust relationships between remote platforms using trusted computing

TGC'07 Proceedings of the 3rd conference on Trustworthy global computing
Enhancing grid security using trusted virtualization

ATC'07 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing

Managing application whitelists in trusted distributed systems

Future Generation Computer Systems
Specification and Standardization of a Java Trusted Computing API

Software—Practice & Experience
Lightweight distributed heterogeneous attested android clouds

TRUST'12 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Trust and Trustworthy Computing

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

The concept of Trusted Computing (TC) promises a new approach to improve the security of computer systems. The core functionality, based on a hardware component known as Trusted Platform Module (TPM), is integrated into commonly available hardware. Still, only limited software support exists, especially in the context of grid computing. This paper discusses why platform independent virtual machines (VM) with their inherent security features are an ideal environment for trusted applications and services. Based on different TC architectures building a chain-of-trust, a VM can be executed in a secure way. This chain-of-trust can be extended at run-time by considering the identity of the application code and by deriving attestable properties from the VMs configuration. An interface to provide applications with TC services like sealing or remote attestation regardless of the underlying host architecture is discussed.