Trustworthy Execution on Mobile Devices

• Main Authors: Vasudevan, Amit (Author), McCune, Jonathan M. (Author), Newsome, James (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Computer Science,
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer communication systems.; Computer security.; Data encryption (Computer science).; Electrical engineering.; Computer Science.; Systems and Data Security.; Computer Communication Networks.; Data Encryption.; Communications Engineering, Networks.

This brief considers the various stakeholders in today's mobile device ecosystem, and analyzes why widely-deployed hardware security primitives on mobile device platforms are inaccessible to application developers and end-users. Existing proposals are also evaluated for leveraging such primitiv...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Demand for Applications Requiring Hardware Security
• Desired Security Features
• Available Hardware Primitives
• Isolated Execution Environments
• API Architectures
• Analysis and Recommendations
• Summary.