Trustworthy platforms

Authors:

  • Jacob Löfvenberg
  • Kristoffer Lundholm

Publish date: 2010-12-31

Report number: FOI-R--3136--SE

Pages: 21

Written in: Swedish

Keywords:

  • IT security
  • trusted platform
  • TPM
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Abstract

Software-based platforms with a high level of trustworthiness has many uses in IT security. There are different names for them, but they all have in common that it is possible to verify that the software has not been modified since installed in the machine. In this report the concept "pålitlig plattform" (approximately "trustworthy plat- form" in English) is defined and discussed for this type of system. Different technolo- gies for building trustworthy platforms are described, and the benefit of such platforms for the Swedish Armed Forces is explained.