The 32nd IPP Symposium

Exploiting a Trusted Platform Framework for Safe Appliance Based Computing

Joe Pato, Hewlett-Packard Labs

The Evolution of Security Mechanisms Must Preserve Choice and Diversity Security mechanisms should not constrain end users to a limited selection of appliances. In particular personal preference and functional rather than presumed security capabilities should drive the choice between special purpose dedicated devices, general-purpose appliances, or a dissociated federation of devices to accomplish a task. Security capability should be available for each of these approaches, and a trust infrastructure must be created so that all relying parties can measure the operational trust capabilities.

This talk will examine the role of trusted computing fundamentals in creating diversity for appliance based systems. It will also examine the controversy around the Trusted Computing Group and how to preserve diversity in secure environments from a variety of perspectives.