MTM
January 30th, 2011 at 03:00pm
Under MTM+ TPM
I came across an interesting article in Network World discussing issues surrounding the rumoured iPhone with NFC (RFID) payment chip. Jeff Nigriny, the CEO of identity management and security firm CertiPath, says that: [I]t would make the most sense for device manufacturers and software designers to separate the iPhone’s payment function from other apps using [...]
Continue Reading Network World suggests there should be a TPM in iPhones
Tags: globalplatform, iphone, network world
By Ken Y-N
December 26th, 2010 at 04:47pm
Under MTM+ TCG
In an otherwise very interesting read on the Kevin Townsend blog, an article on anti-virus and anti-spam technology made an all-too-common error of confusing Trusted Computing and Trustworthy Computing, as well as the capabilities of the Trusted Platform Module. The answer might be in Scott Charney’s title: vice president of trustworthy computing. Microsoft, of course, [...]
Continue Reading Confused by Trusted and Trustworthy Computing
Tags: kevin townsend
By Ken Y-N
November 21st, 2010 at 07:21am
Under MTM
The Trusted Computing Group’s official blog recently posted an article regarding the Mobile Phone Working Group’s activities. I have to declare my own self-interest in this topic as one of the members of this group and a contributor to more of the referenced documents.
Continue Reading Mobile phones and trusted computing
Tags: mobile
By Ken Y-N
November 20th, 2010 at 05:19pm
Under MTM+ Virtualisation
I picked up an interesting article on IT Knowledge Hub about VMware’s Mobile Virtualization Platform (MVP) and Open Kernel Labs’ criticism of it. What MVP does is summed up by this sentence: The new architecture instead adopts a hosted virtualization platform (a type-2 VMM) that runs on top of the native RTOS installed on the [...]
Continue Reading VMware to launch mobile virtualisation solution; OK Labs not impressed
Tags: open kernel labs, vmware
By Ken Y-N
September 14th, 2010 at 02:54pm
Under MTM+ Virtualisation
I came across this interesting post on the Building Bridges blog about how mobile virtualisation is a natural evolution from the current situation. I’m not sure of the accuracy of the technical content, but it’s nice to see someone writing about these issues! The top five reasons were identified as: Support for multiple environments Easier [...]
Continue Reading Five reasons for virtualisation in mobile phones
Tags: joe hackman, okl4
By Ken Y-N
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
Under MTM
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