Trusted Infrastructure Workshop

我们国家的大多数人？尽管设计人员尽了最大的努力去发现和修复漏洞，但作为组件的操作系统仍然充满了漏洞。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，其目标是提供一个存储密钥的地方，保护存储，提供关于系统上运行的代码的代码隔离认证。所有可以提高安全性的功能。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组织了一个为期一周的研讨会，TPM技术的开发人员和有效使用它的用户为研讨会提供了教程材料和实践经验。其中包括学生、教师和潜在的行业用户。研讨会的最终目标是为下一个十年定义一个研究计划，重点关注硬件对安全性的支持。申请的资金将用于偿还参加2009年6月8日至12日在匹兹堡举行的研讨会的研究生和本科生的费用。

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 PIs ran a one-week workshop 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 workshop was to define a research program for the next decade focused around hardware support for security. The funds requested would be used to reimburse the expenses of graduate and undergraduate students participating in the workshop, which took place June 8-12, 2009 in Pittsburgh.