I agree that remote attestation has many interesting and useful applications. However, the way its defined now makes it static and inflexible.
I've been working on ways to make remote attestation more flexible, dynamic and expressive, using virtual machines (such as the Java VM).
For a full discussion, see: http://gandalf.ics.uci.edu/~haldar/pubs/trustedvm- tr.pdf (Vivek Haldar, Deepak Chandra, and Michael Franz; Semantic Remote attestation: A Virtual Machine Directed Approach to Trusted Computing; To appear in USENIX Virtual Machine Research and Technology Symposium, May 2004)
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I agree that remote attestation has many interesting and useful applications. However, the way its defined now makes it static and inflexible.
- tr.pdf
I've been working on ways to make remote attestation more flexible, dynamic and expressive, using virtual machines (such as the Java VM).
For a full discussion, see: http://gandalf.ics.uci.edu/~haldar/pubs/trustedvm
(Vivek Haldar, Deepak Chandra, and Michael Franz; Semantic Remote attestation: A Virtual Machine Directed Approach to Trusted Computing; To appear in USENIX Virtual Machine Research and Technology Symposium, May 2004)