Rootkit Resistant File-system based on TPM

Author

Yew, Teh Jia ; Bin Samsudin, Khairulmizam ; Udzir, Nur Izura

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Syst. & Commun. Eng., UPM Serdang, Serdang, Malaysia

fYear

2010

fDate

5-8 Dec. 2010

Firstpage

250

Lastpage

253

Abstract

Current method of computer security implementations are only software based. The future trend of security is shifting towards hardware and software based. We shall utilize the growing trend in security, the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) to prove that both hardware and software security implementation is feasible and effective. We hence, choose to utilize TPM for prevention of file system rootkit persistence. Such is performed utilizing the data signing capability provided by the TPM´s signing keys-thus the construction of the Rootkit Resistant File-system (RRF) based on TPM. We shall further demonstrate that our RRF is comparable with Tripwire.

Keywords

cryptography; invasive software; microcontrollers; TPM; Tripwire; computer security; data signing capability; hardware security; rootkit resistant file-system; signing key; software security; trusted platform module; Computer security; Computers; Hardware; Kernel; Linux; File signing; Rootkits; Tripwire; Trusted Computing (TC); Trusted Platform Module (TPM);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Applications and Industrial Electronics (ICCAIE), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kuala Lumpur

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9054-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCAIE.2010.5735084

Filename

5735084