Outbound authentication

Secure Coprocessor;TPM;Trusted Computing

The termattestation has come to refer to a set of techniques to provide the relying party with sufficient evidence to make a trust decision about a given computing platform.

In many scenarios in computing, a party may have motivation to ascertain the properties of another computing entity.

Probably the most natural scenarios arise in distributed computing. Can Alice trust that Bob’s remote server is sufficiently trustworthy for her to submit her sensitive information? Can Bob trust that Alice’s client machine is configured with the latest patches – or is it laden with malware that will infect his system if she connects? The problems can also arise in settings where this no clear client-server distinction, such as peer-to-peer computing (is Bob really running the bona fide file sharing client?).

The problem can also rise in more localized settings, where one of the parties...

Authors and Affiliations

1. Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, 6211 Sudikoff Laboratory, 03755-3510, Hanover, NH, USA

   Sean W. Smith

Editors and Affiliations

1. Department of Mathematics and Computing Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5600 MB, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

   Henk C. A. van Tilborg

2. Center for Secure Information Systems, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, 22030-4422, USA

   Sushil Jajodia

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