Trusted Computing Group

Lately, there has been some intersting research work on Trusted Computing, TNC and Mobile Phone Security conducted by the Trust@FHH group at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hanover in Germany.
Three peer reviewed research papers summarize their results.

 

The first one is called "Interoperable Remote Attestation for VPN Environments" and was presented at INTRUST 2010 in Bejing, P.R. China. It describes a lighweight approach in order to carry out a TNC handshake accross an established VPN connection. The good thing here is that there is no need to modify the VPN gateway itself.

 

Another paper that focuses on TNC is called "Interoperable Device Identification in Smart-Grid Environments". It was accepted for the 2011 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting which will be held in Detroit, Michigan, USA. The paper describes how TNC can be used in order to securely identify the so called Smart Energy Gateways within a Smart-Grid environment.

 

The last paper that shall be mentioned here is "Towards Permission-Based Attestation for the Android Platform". It was accepted for Trust 2011 which will be held at Carnegie Mellon University. The paper introduces a new, lightweight and scalable attestation approach for Android-based mobile phones.

 

For further information on the mentioned publications or Trust@FHH in general, just vist their website at http://trust.inform.fh-hannover.de/ or contact them directly via trust@f4-i.fh-hannover.de.