DocumentCode
494899
Title
Entrusting Remote Software Executed in an Untrusted Computation Helper
Author
MBarka, Moez Ben ; Krief, Francine ; Ly, Olivier
Author_Institution
Cryptolog, Paris, France
fYear
2009
fDate
24-26 June 2009
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
5
Abstract
How to trust an application executed in a remote untrusted client? Indeed, in an untrusted environment, an attacker may tamper with the application code or the execution environment to alter the application behavior for its own purposes. This problem is traditionally addressed by checking the integrity of the application code at loading and during runtime. However, this line of protection is not sufficient when the client is used as a computation helper and is expected to return the result to a trusted server. An attacker may execute the application without altering its code but returns an invalid result. This paper proposes a new approach to deal with remote software execution in an untrusted client used as a computation helper. The proposed solution provides the integrity of the computation result returned to a secure server.
Keywords
network servers; security of data; application code; remote software; trusted server; untrusted computation helper; Application software; Computational modeling; Cryptography; Data security; Grid computing; Hardware; Helium; Operating systems; Protection; Runtime;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Network and Service Security, 2009. N2S '09. International Conference on
Conference_Location
Paris
Print_ISBN
978-2-9532-4431-1
Type
conf
Filename
5161656
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