An approach to introducing locality in remote attestation using near field communications

摘要

Remote Attestation, as devised by the Trusted Computing Group, is based on a secure hardware component—the Trusted Platform Module (TPM). It allows to reach trust decisions between different network hosts. However, attestation cannot be applied in an important field of application—the identification of physically encountered, public computer platforms. Unfortunately, such computer terminals are especially exposed and the software running on them cannot be assumed unaltered and secure.