On Using TPM for Secure Identities in Future Home Networks

Posted by Ken Y-N on January 19th, 2011 at 01:34pm

I recently came across an interesting paper entitled "On Using TPM for Secure Identities in Future Home Networks" by five members of the Faculty of Informatics in Technical University, Munich. The abstract is as follow:

Security should be integrated into future networks from the beginning, not as an extension. Secure identities and authentication schemes are an important step to fulfil this quest. In this article, we argue that home networks are a natural trust anchor for such schemes. We describe our concept of home networks as a universal point of reference for authentication, trust and access control, and show that our scheme can be applied to any next generation network. As home networks are no safe place, we apply Trusted Computing technology to prevent the abuse of identities, i.e., identity theft.

The full paper is available for download.

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