Trusted Computing Serving an Anonymity Service

Authors:
Alexander Böttcher;Bernhard Kauer;Hermann Härtig
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science Operating Systems Group, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany 01062;Department of Computer Science Operating Systems Group, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany 01062;Department of Computer Science Operating Systems Group, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany 01062
Venue:
Trust '08 Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Trusted Computing and Trust in Information Technologies: Trusted Computing - Challenges and Applications
Year:
2008

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Abstract

We leveraged trusted computing technology to counteract certain insider attacks. Furthermore, we show with one of the rare server based scenarios that an anonymity service can profit from trusted computing. We based our design on the Nizza Architecture [14] with its small kernel and minimal multi-server OS. We even avoided Nizza's legacy container and got a much smaller, robust and hopefully more secure system, since we believe that minimizing the trusted computing base is an essential requirement for trust into software.