Trusted Computing Tutorial
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Trust and Security in Virtual Communities
Tutorial: Trusted Computing Technologies for eScience
eSI, Edinburgh, 3rd and 4th June 2008
Trusted Computing is a significant paradigm shift in the design of networked computing devices, and hardware support for it is quickly becoming commonplace. Many authors have observed the potential for this technology to offer significant and substantial benefits to grid, cloud, and other models of distributed computing, but so far relatively few of these have been realized. Much of the discussion of the field in the popular media has been dominated by discussion of a particular kind of multimedia rights management, and has been characterized by a certain degree of mis-information, and out-of-date material.
This tutorial gives a thorough overview of the motivation for this approach, the technical capabilities of the trusted computing technologies, and their connection to whole system virtualization. We end with a more discursive exploration of the realistic potential for their prototyping and deployment in eScience applications.
We are aware that the dates coincided with the OGF meeting in Barcelona. If you would wished to attend this tutorial, but were prevented from doing so by attending OGF, please do get in touch. It may be worthwhile to schedule a second instance, or to make some other arrangements.
Outline
- Lecture One
- Trust as an expectation of behaviour; trusted computing as response to the developing threats and vulnerabilities in networked systems; economic impacts, counter-arguments, and realistic prospects.
- Lecture Two
- Trusted systems and infrastructure; chain of trust and its components.
- Lecture Three
- Trusted Platform Module (TPM) details; Trusted Software Stack (TSS); programming models.
- Lecture Four
- Trusted Virtualization
- Lecture Five
- Trusted Computing ecosystem: Trusted Network Connect (TNC); encrypted disc drives; other emerging components.
- Lecture Six
- Trusted Computing for eScience.
Agenda
Day one:
10am arrival, coffee
10.30am Lecture One
12.30pm Lunch
1.30pm Lecture Two
3pm Coffee
3.15pm Lecture Three
5pm Depart
Day two:
9am Lecture Four
10.30am Coffee
10.45am Lecture Five
12.30pm Lunch
1.30pm Lecture Six
3pm Coffee, and depart
More information
Contact Andrew Martin for more information.
