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Semantic Remote Attestation—A Virtual Machine Directed Approach to Trusted Computing

Vivek Haldar, Deepak Chandra, and Michael Franz, University of California, Irvine

Abstract

Remote attestation is one of the core functionalities provided by trusted computing platforms. It holds the promise of enabling a variety of novel applications. However, current techniques for remote attestation are static, inexpressive and fundamentally incompatible with today's heterogeneous distributed computing environments and commodity open systems. Using language-based virtual machines enables the remote attestation of complex, dynamic, and high-level program properties—in a platform-independent way. We call this semantic remote attestation. This enables a number of novel applications that distribute trust dynamically. We have implemented a prototype framework for semantic remote attestation, and present two example applications built on it—a peer-to-peer network protocol, and a distributed computing application.
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