A New Approach to Multilevel Security Based on Trusted Computing Platform

To achieve the multilevel security goal some models had been developed such as BLP since 1970s. These models can´t successfully work in network environment nowadays due to the difficulty to make the labels of subjects and objects unaltered across different computers. Recent years many researchers put forward cryptographic solutions to address multilevel security problem. But the key management schemes in real systems were always difficult problems that made those solutions unfeasible. The trusted computing technologies are great advancement in computer architecture and should be a powerful tool to securely manage the keys. This paper proposes a new approach on the base of the capabilities provided by TPM (trusted platform module) to implement a sound cryptographic algorithm. The new approach enforces a mandatory access control policy in network environment and is especially suited for classified organizations.