Bootstrapping Trust in Modern Computers

by Bryan Parno, Adrian Perrig, Jonathan M. McCune

Trusting a computer for a security-sensitive task (such as checking email or banking online) requires the user to know something about the computer's state. We examine research on securely capturing a computer's state, and consider the utility of this information both for improving security on the local computer (e.g., to convince the user that her computer is not infected with malware) and for communicating a remote computer's state (e.g., to enable...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1461414598
• ISBN13: 9781461414599
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 101 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.8"