LIGHTWEIGHT DISTRIBUTED ATTESTATION FOR THE CLOUD

Martin Pirker, Johannes Winter, Ronald Toegl

2012

Abstract

Moving local services into a network of Cloud nodes raises security concerns, as this affects control over data and code execution. We leverage the Trusted Platform Module and Trusted Execution Technology of modern platforms to detect malicious Cloud nodes running untrusted software configurations. To achieve this, we propose a node-to-Cloud join protocol that enforces remote attestation.

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in Harvard Style

Pirker M., Winter J. and Toegl R. (2012). LIGHTWEIGHT DISTRIBUTED ATTESTATION FOR THE CLOUD . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER, ISBN 978-989-8565-05-1, pages 580-585. DOI: 10.5220/0003929105800585


in Bibtex Style

@conference{closer12,
author={Martin Pirker and Johannes Winter and Ronald Toegl},
title={LIGHTWEIGHT DISTRIBUTED ATTESTATION FOR THE CLOUD},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,},
year={2012},
pages={580-585},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003929105800585},
isbn={978-989-8565-05-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,
TI - LIGHTWEIGHT DISTRIBUTED ATTESTATION FOR THE CLOUD
SN - 978-989-8565-05-1
AU - Pirker M.
AU - Winter J.
AU - Toegl R.
PY - 2012
SP - 580
EP - 585
DO - 10.5220/0003929105800585