Trusted Architecture for Mobile P2P Systems

Security is one of main challenges that obstruct the wide adoption of mobile P2P systems. Current decentralized trust-management research focuses mainly on providing software resource level security schemes by trust models and algorithms, whereas potential merits of hardware-based security mechanisms to further secure application exposure have not been considered so far. This paper presents a new trust management solution towards establishing a security mobile environment for mobile P2P systems. The proposed architecture for developers can be utilized as a foundation for their own secure mobile P2P applications. This unique feature of the proposed architecture is that it combines software resource level security features offered by trust models and algorithms, with the hardware-based security mechanisms offered by Trusted Computing Platform.