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March 8th, 2010 at 03:07pm
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I recently came across the paper "A Novel Protocol for Software Authentication" by Rongyu He, Zheng Qin and Shaojie Wu, and I’ve just spent a while reviewing it, and it seems to have a massive security hole in it. The subject is a proposed improvement to the Mobile Trusted Module specifications. First, the abstract says:
The [...]
Continue Reading Reviewing "A Novel Protocol for Software Authentication"
Tags: paper, review, urim
By Ken Y-N
January 5th, 2010 at 02:17pm
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Welcome to the first post to Blog of Trust for the New Year, and this post brings some interesting news that I’m personally very happy to see.
Nokia have recently had a paper published that was presented at the 2009 ACM workshop on Scalable trusted computing. The title is Trust in a small package: minimized MRTM [...]
Continue Reading Nokia puts trust in a small package
Tags: mtm emulator, nokia
By Ken Y-N
December 2nd, 2009 at 01:52pm
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Just a quick note that although a previous post of mine it on top of Google for a search for MTM Emulator, the target link is out of date. I’d been informed of the new location through another channel, but I didn’t think I had permission to announce it. However, I now see that the [...]
Continue Reading Update on the MTM Emulator
Tags: emulator, nokia
By Ken Y-N
November 27th, 2009 at 04:23pm
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With Google recently releasing the design documents for their Chromium (Chrome) OS I was further curious to see if they had considered the Trusted Computing Group’s Mobile Trusted Module, but sadly they had not.
Thinking about the problem, their write-protected region of EEPROM works as a CRTM (Core Root of Trust for Measurement), and this [...]
Continue Reading Google Chromium (Chrome) OS versus the MTM
Tags: chrome, chromium, crtm, google, secure boot, verified boot
By Ken Y-N
November 3rd, 2009 at 03:21pm
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There’s a bit of a buzz going around about this job posting from Apple, looking for an iPhone OS Platform Security Manager. The first paragraph of the job description is:
The Core OS group is looking for a talented and inspired manager to lead a team focused on the platform security of iPhone OS. The team [...]
Continue Reading Apple to add MTM support to iPhone?
Tags: iphone, secure boot, trustzone
By Ken Y-N
October 12th, 2009 at 03:26pm
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Maemo is Nokia’s new Linux-based software platform for mobile phones and tablet computers, etc, so I was interested to see this post entitled Maemo Security - Lockdown or Liberation? by an open source developer involved with the device. There was this interesting section:
At the Maemo2009 Summit Nokia shared a great deal of information about the [...]
Continue Reading Nokia Maemo Security
Tags: maemo, nokia
By Ken Y-N
July 20th, 2009 at 03:12pm
Under MTM+ Virtualisation
Embedded Computing recently published an article by Steve Subar of Open Kernel Labs on mobile phone virtualization. This is a subject in which I have a lot of active interest, especially in relation to the Mobile Trusted Module and its associated Multi-Stakeholder Model.
Open Kernel Labs’ OKL4 hypervisor has found its way into the two biggest [...]
Continue Reading Virtualization on mobile phones
Tags: android, iphone, open kernel labs
By Ken Y-N
October 3rd, 2008 at 09:27am
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TECOM, Trusted Embedded COMputing, is a project funded in part by Information Technology for European Advancement (ITEA) looking at trusted computing in embedded systems, with a €1,516,639 budget.
Aonix have announced that they will provide the PERC Ultra Java Virtual Machine to be integrated with the TECOM middleware and the TECOM trusted operating system, itself built [...]
Continue Reading Aonix contributing PERC Ultra JVM to TECOM
Tags: aonix, java, perc ultra, tecom
By Ken Y-N
October 2nd, 2008 at 01:12pm
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As someone whose particular interest in the Trusted Computing world is the mobile sphere, I found this story a sign of what may come - I remember the rumours about a TPM in the iPhone, so how long before we see a TPM (Trusted Platform Module) in an Android phone, either the rumour or the [...]
Continue Reading OKL4 and Android: are the pieces slotting into place?
Tags: android, google, htc, okl4, open kernel labs
By Ken Y-N
September 4th, 2008 at 02:22pm
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Janne Uusilehto, head of Nokia product security and chairman of the Trusted Computing Group’s Mobile Phone Work Group, will be a panelist on a discussion on enterprise mobile security at the CTIA Wireless IT and Entertainment 2008 conference, to be held on the 11th of September 2008 from 2:30 pm to 3:45 pm at the [...]
Continue Reading Nokia to address CITA on mobile security
Tags: mobile phone, nokia, wireless it
By Ken Y-N
