BIND: A Fine-Grained Attestation Service for Secure Distributed Systems

In this paper, we propose BIND (Binding Instructions aNd Data),1 a fine-grained attestation service for securing distributed systems. Code attestation has recently received considerable attention in trusted computing. However, current code attestation technology is relatively immature. First, due to the great variability in software versions and configurations, verification of the hash is difficult. Second, the time-of-use and time-of-attestation discrepancy remains to be addressed, since the code may be correct at the time of the attestation, but it may be compromised by the time of use. The goal of BIND is to address these issues and make code attestation more usable in securing distributed systems. BIND offers the following properties: 1) BIND performs fine-grained attestation. Instead of attesting to the entire memory content, BIND attests only to the piece of code we are concerned about. This greatly simplifies verification. 2) BIND narrows the gap between time-ofattestati...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: SP
• Authors: Elaine Shi, Adrian Perrig, Leendert van Doorn
• Keywords: Code Attestation, Distributed System, Security Privacy, SP 2005, fine-grained Attestation