A Novel Free-Roaming Mobile Agent Security Mechanism by Trusted Computing Technology

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silei Lei ◽  
Jun Liu ◽  
Junmo Xiao
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Agent ◽  
Trusted Computing ◽  
Security Mechanism ◽  
Computing Technology ◽  
Mobile Agent Security

scholarly journals Security for Mobile Agents: Trust Estimate for Platforms

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 381
Author(s):  
Razouki Hassan ◽  
Hair Abdellatif
Keyword(s):  
Distributed Computing ◽  
Mobile Agent ◽  
Mobile Agents ◽  
Security Threats ◽  
Computing Technology ◽  
Open Network ◽  
Degree Of Confidence ◽  
Mobile Agent Security ◽  
Malicious Host

The mobile agent has been seen as a promising distributed computing technology. The mobility characteristic of mobile agent makes it to travel often in open network. In this scenario, it is obvious that the mobile agents are vulnerable to various security threats. Protecting free-roaming mobile agents from malicious host and from other mobile agents has drawn much attention in recent years. The protection of mobile agents is considered as one of the greatest challenges of security, because the platform of execution has access to all the components of the mobile agent. In this paper, we present a new architecture paradigm of mobile agents, which allows the separation of the implementation tasks of the agent and its security mechanisms. Our approach is based on using two strategies of adaptation to adapt the mobile agent security at runtime, depending on the sensitivity of the services required to perform the duties of the agent and the degree of confidence of the visited platforms.

scholarly journals eTPM: A Trusted Cloud Platform Enclave TPM Scheme Based on Intel SGX Technology

Sensors ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (11) ◽  
pp. 3807 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haonan Sun ◽  
Rongyu He ◽  
Yong Zhang ◽  
Ruiyun Wang ◽  
Wai Hung Ip ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Machines ◽  
Trusted Computing ◽  
Information Leakage ◽  
Research Topic ◽  
Cloud Environment ◽  
Cloud Platform ◽  
Computing Technology ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
Runtime Environment ◽  
Cloud Users

Today cloud computing is widely used in various industries. While benefiting from the services provided by the cloud, users are also faced with some security issues, such as information leakage and data tampering. Utilizing trusted computing technology to enhance the security mechanism, defined as trusted cloud, has become a hot research topic in cloud security. Currently, virtual TPM (vTPM) is commonly used in a trusted cloud to protect the integrity of the cloud environment. However, the existing vTPM scheme lacks protections of vTPM itself at a runtime environment. This paper proposed a novel scheme, which designed a new trusted cloud platform security component, ‘enclave TPM (eTPM)’ to protect cloud and employed Intel SGX to enhance the security of eTPM. The eTPM is a software component that emulates TPM functions which build trust and security in cloud and runs in ‘enclave’, an isolation memory zone introduced by SGX. eTPM can ensure its security at runtime, and protect the integrity of Virtual Machines (VM) according to user-specific policies. Finally, a prototype for the eTPM scheme was implemented, and experiment manifested its effectiveness, security, and availability.

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