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List:       secpapers
Subject:    Personal Secure Booting
From:       aleph1 () securityfocus ! com
Date:       2001-09-15 23:18:35
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Personal Secure Booting
Naomaru Itoi, William A. Arbaugh, Samuela J. Pollack, and Daniel M. Reeves

With the majority of security breaches coming from inside of organizations, 
and with the number of public computing sites, where users do not know the 
system administrators, increasing, it is dangerous to blindly trust system 
administrators to mange computers appropriately. However, most current 
security systems are vulnerable to malicious software modification by 
administrators. To solve this problem, we have developed a system called 
sAEGIS, which embraces a smartcard as personal secure storage for computer 
component hashes, and uses the hashes in a secure booting process to ensure 
the integrity of the computer components.

http://www.citi.umich.edu/techreports/reports/citi-tr-01-8.pdf
http://www.citi.umich.edu/techreports/reports/citi-tr-01-8.ps.gz

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