Building Trust into Cloud Computing Using Virtualization of TPM

Author

Xin Wan ; Zhiting Xiao ; Yi Ren

Author_Institution

Nat. Defense Inf. Acad. Wuhan, Wuhan, China

fYear

2012

fDate

2-4 Nov. 2012

Firstpage

59

Lastpage

63

Abstract

A key technology of cloud computing is virtualization, which can lead to reduce the total cost and increase the application flexibility. However along with these benefits come added security challenges. The extension of Trusted Computing to virtual environments can provide secure storage and ensure system integrity. In this paper, we describe and analyze several existing virtualization of TPM (vTPM) designs: software-based vTPM, hardware-based vTPM, para-virtualized TPM and property-based vTPM and analyze each of their limitations. We believe this to be an useful exercise to help better understand and apply the technology of virtualization of TPM in real cloud computing systems.

Keywords

cloud computing; data integrity; trusted computing; virtual machines; virtualisation; application flexibility enhancement; cloud computing technology; hardware-based vTPM design; paravirtualized TPM design; property-based vTPM design; software-based vTPM design; storage security; system integrity; total cost reduction; trusted computing; trusted platform module; virtualization-of-TPM design; Computer architecture; Hardware; Security; Software; Virtual machine monitors; Virtual machining; Cloud Computing; Trusted computing; security; vTPM; virtualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia Information Networking and Security (MINES), 2012 Fourth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Nanjing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-3093-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MINES.2012.82

Filename

6405630