An Integrity Assurance Mechanism for Run-Time Programs

  • Authors:
  • Ziyao Xu;Yeping He;Lingli Deng

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China 1000190 and Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China 100049;Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China 1000190;Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China 1000190 and Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China 100049

  • Venue:
  • Information Security and Cryptology
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

To conquer the weakness of existing integrity measurement and verification mechanisms based on trusted computing technology, an integrity assurance mechanism for run-time programs is proposed in this paper. Based on a dynamic integrity measuring module, the proposed integrity assurance mechanism solves the difficulties that may be encountered when attesting to the integrity of running programs. The paper also describes the design and implementation details of the proposed module. An example of applying the proposed mechanism to protect the vTPM instances in Xen hypervisor is presented at last.