On the Feasibility of Remote Attestation for Web Services

  • Authors:
  • John Lyle;Andrew Martin

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • CSE '09 Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering - Volume 03
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Remote attestation is a significant part of the functionality offered by trusted computing, allowing a platform to demonstrate that it is running trustworthy software. However, this technique has been criticised as impractical, citing the management overhead of maintaining lists of acceptable software configurations. In this paper we put numbers to this problem, and argue that remote attestation may not be too fragile a technology to be used for web services.