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August 16th, 2010 at 03:46pm
Under MTM
Here’s an interesting post from the Security Engineering Research Group blog, a research group based in Pakistan that specialises in Trusted Computing issues, where they have an in-depth look at the history of MAC, Mandatory Access Control, from the very beginnings in 1967 to the present day, where the Trusted Computing Group is one player, [...]
Continue Reading The history and evolution of Mandatory Access Controls
Tags: mac
By Ken Y-N
July 2nd, 2010 at 03:17pm
Under MTM
The site Mobile Dev and Design recently published an article describing a collaboration between Open Kernel Labs and Sirrix Security Technology to produce a secure mobile computing environment. The outline of the platform says: The joint prototype will run on readily available N900 mobile hardware and integrate the Sirrix Turaya Security Kernel (encryption, VPN, MTM/attestation, [...]
Continue Reading Open Kernel Labs and Sirrix produce a Mobile Trusted Platform
Tags: okl4, open kernel labs, sirrix
By Ken Y-N
June 28th, 2010 at 01:57pm
Under MTM
I noticed recently that Jan-Erik Ekberg from the Nokia Research Center has written a chapter for the book Trust Modeling and Management in Digital Environments: From Social Concept to System Development. His chapter is entitled Mobile Trusted Computing Based on MTM, and describes amongst other things his work at Nokia on the Mobile Trusted Module, [...]
Continue Reading Nokia Research Center on Mobile Trusted Module
Tags: jan-erik ekberg, nokia
By Ken Y-N
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: [...]
Continue Reading Reviewing "A Novel Protocol for Software Authentication"
Tags: paper, review, urim
By Ken Y-N
January 5th, 2010 at 02:17pm
Under MTM
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 [...]
Continue Reading Nokia puts trust in a small package
Tags: mtm emulator, nokia
By Ken Y-N
December 2nd, 2009 at 01:52pm
Under MTM
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
Under MTM
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
Under MTM
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Continue Reading Virtualization on mobile phones
Tags: android, iphone, open kernel labs
By Ken Y-N