Trusted Infrastructure Workshop

尽管设计者尽了最大的努力去发现和修复漏洞，但我们国家的大多数系统都有充满漏洞的操作系统组件。基于研究界的成就，工业界正试图创造新的硬件结构，以帮助提高安全性。其中特别值得注意的是可信计算组（TCG）开发的可信平台模块（TPM）芯片，TCG是一个拥有100多个成员的大型行业联盟。现在，许多交付的处理器都包含TPM芯片，其目标是提供存储密钥的位置、保护存储、提供关于系统上运行的代码的代码隔离认证——所有这些功能都可以提高安全性。尽管硬件提供了非常有用和强大的安全特性，但研究人员在采用这些技术设计安全系统方面进展缓慢。原因之一是用户不熟悉这项新技术。为了纠正这种情况，PI每年举办一次研讨会，在研讨会上，TPM技术的开发人员和有效使用它的用户为研讨会的参与者（包括学生、教师和潜在的行业用户）提供教程材料和实践经验。研讨会的最终目标是为未来十年定义一个研究计划，重点关注硬件对安全性的支持。这是该系列的第二个研讨会。这些资金用于偿还研究生和本科生参加研讨会的费用，该研讨会将于2011年6月在匹兹堡举行。

Most of our Nation's systems have as components operating systems that are replete with vulnerabilities despite the best efforts of the designers to discover and fix the vulnerabilities. Building on the accomplishments of the research community, industry is attempting to create new hardware structures that can help improve security. Particularly noteworthy of these is the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) chip developed by the Trusted Computing Group (TCG), a large industry consortium that involves over 100 members. Now, many delivered processors contain TPM chips, with the goal being to provide a place to store keys, protect storage, provide code isolation attestation about the code running on a system -- all functions that can improve security. Although the hardware provides extremely useful and powerful security properties, researchers have been slow at adopting these techniques towards the design of secure systems. One reason is that users are not familiar with this new technology. To remedy this situation, the PI is running annual workshops in which the developers of the TPM technology and users who have made effective use of it provided tutorial material and hands-on experiences for the workshop's participants which included students, faculty, and potential industry users. The ultimate goal of the workshops is to define a research program for the next decade focused around hardware support for security. This is the second workshop in the series. These funds are used to reimburse the expenses of graduate and undergraduate students participating in the workshop, which will take place in June, 2011 in Pittsburgh.