Bøger af Adrian Perrig

Trusting a computer for a security-sensitive task (such as checking email or banking online) requires the user to know something about the computer's state. We examine research on securely capturing a computer's state, and consider the utility of this information both for improving security on the local computer (e.g., to convince the user that her computer is not infected with malware) and for communicating a remote computer's state (e.g., to enable the user to check that a web server will adequately protect her data). Although the recent "e;Trusted Computing"e; initiative has drawn both positive and negative attention to this area, we consider the older and broader topic of bootstrapping trust in a computer. We cover issues ranging from the wide collection of secure hardware that can serve as a foundation for trust, to the usability issues that arise when trying to convey computer state information to humans. This approach unifies disparate research efforts and highlights opportunities for additional work that can guide real-world improvements in computer security.

This book is a series of related chapters on advanced topics in computer security for researchers in computer and electrical engineering. Original contributions are edited and invited from members of the TRUST project, a major NSF-funded research grant focusing on the themes of identity theft, privacy and medical records, malware, computer network defense, secure sensor webs, secure embedded systems, and large scale systems. The editors are among the authors represented in the contributions.

This book describes the essential components of the SCION secure Internet architecture, the first architecture designed foremost for strong security and high availability.

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