Title :
On the Feasibility of Remote Attestation for Web Services
Author :
Lyle, John ; Martin, Andrew
Author_Institution :
Oxford Univ. Comput. Lab., Oxford, UK
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.
Keywords :
Web services; security of data; Web service; remote attestation; trusted computing; Application software; Databases; Hardware; Isolation technology; Laboratories; Registers; Semiconductor device measurement; Software maintenance; Viruses (medical); Web services; attestation; integrity reporting; software update; trusted computing; web services;
Conference_Titel :
Computational Science and Engineering, 2009. CSE '09. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Vancouver, BC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5334-4
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3823-5
DOI :
10.1109/CSE.2009.213
