Tag: Stefan Thom

Using TPMs in embedded systems

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Stefan Thom (Microsoft), Steve Hanna (Infineon), and Stacy Cannady (Cisco) have an article in Electronic Design on TPM use in embedded systems. If you are new to TPM, this is a nice introduction.

Standardizing Trust for Embedded Systems

It’s time to get more serious about the lack of security in embedded products. With recently developed standards, it’s implementation just got easier. If you haven’t been concerned about malicious players hacking into your products in the past, or haven’t found success with previous efforts, it’s time for renewed attention and action. Hacking efforts aren’t slowing and, in fact, are on the rise. These days, hackers can accomplish far more than ever before—and the repercussions are far more costly. […]

Full article:
http://electronicdesign.com/embedded/standardizing-trust-embedded-systems

fTPM 2.0 research from Microsoft

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There’s a new paper from Microsoft Research, on a firmware-based TPM implementation (fTPM):

This paper presents the design and implementation of a firmware-based TPM 2.0 (fTPM) leveraging ARM TrustZone. The fTPM is the reference implementation used in millions of mobile devices, and was the first hardware or software implementation to support the newly released TPM 2.0 specification. This paper describes the shortcomings of ARM’s TrustZone for implementing secure service (such as our implementation), and presents three different approaches to overcome them. Additionally, the paper analyzes the fTPM’s security guarantees and demonstrates that many of the ARM TrustZone’s shortcomings remain present in future trusted hardware, such as Intel’s Software Guard Extensions (SGX).

Authors: Himanshu Raj, Stefan Saroiu, Alec Wolman, Ronald Aigner, Jeremiah Cox, Paul England, Chris Fenner, Kinshuman Kinshumann, Jork Loeser, Dennis Mattoon, Magnus Nystrom, David Robinson, Rob Spiger, Stefan Thom, and David Wooten

http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=258236