Title :
A Trusted Bootstrap Scheme on EFI
Author :
Rui Zhang ; Jiqiang Liu ; Shuanghe Peng
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. & Inf. Technol., Beijing Jiaotong Univ., Beijing, China
Abstract :
Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) is a new interface applied for platform firmware and the operating system. Due to providing extensibility and customization, EFI is also a new technology instead of the conventional Basic Input-Output System (BIOS). However, the issue of building trusted EFI BIOS becomes increasingly important. The key of establishing trusted EFI BIOS is based on the trust transition. Therefore, we formalize the principles of building the trust chain firstly, and then present a suggested trust transition model in this paper.
Keywords :
computer bootstrapping; firmware; security of data; basic input-output system; extensible firmware interface; trust transition model; trusted bootstrap scheme; Authentication; Computer interfaces; Computer networks; Computer security; Information security; Information technology; Microprogramming; Multimedia systems; Operating systems; Safety; extensible firmware interface; trusted bootstrap; trusted computing; trusted platform model;
Conference_Titel :
Multimedia Information Networking and Security, 2009. MINES '09. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Hubei
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3843-3
DOI :
10.1109/MINES.2009.134
