Cryptographically Assured Information Flow: Assured Remote Execution

Autor:	Dyer, Scott L., Femrite, Christian A., Guttman, Joshua D., Lanson, Julian P., Liskov, Moses D.
Rok vydání:	2024
Předmět:	Computer Science - Cryptography and Security Computer Science - Distributed Parallel and Cluster Computing
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
Popis:	Assured Remote Execution on a device is the ability of suitably authorized parties to construct secure channels with known processes -- i.e. processes executing known code -- running on it. Assured Remote Execution requires a hardware basis including cryptographic primitives. In this paper, we show that a simple hardware-level mechanism called Cryptographically Assured Information Flow (CAIF) enables Assured Remote Execution. CAIF is akin to some operations in existing Trusted Execution Environments, but securely implements an ideal functionality defined in terms of logging and confidential escrow. We show how to achieve Assured Remote Execution for a wide variety of processes on a CAIF device. Cryptographic protocol analysis demonstrates our security goals are achieved even against a strong adversary that may modify our programs and execute unauthorized programs on the device. Assured Remote Execution enables useful functionality such as trustworthy remote attestation, and provides some of the support needed for secure remote reprogramming. Comment: 38 pp.We are grateful to the MITRE Independent Research and Development Program for support
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.02630 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv