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

Volume

1

fYear

2009

fDate

18-20 Nov. 2009

Firstpage

200

Lastpage

204

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia Information Networking and Security, 2009. MINES '09. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hubei

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3843-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MINES.2009.134

Filename

5368372