Towards an open framework leveraging a trusted execution environment

Javier Gonzalez, Philippe Bonnet

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Abstract

Sensor data is a core component of big data. The abundance of sensor data combined with advances in data integration and data mining entails a great opportunity to develop innovative applications. However, data about our movements, our energy consumption or our biometry are personal data that we should have full control over. Likewise, companies face a trade-off as the benefits of innovative services must be weighted against the risk of exposing data that reveal core internal processes. How to design a data platform that enables innovative data services and yet enforce access and usage control? The solutions proposed in the literature to this trade-off all involve some form of trusted execution environment, where data and processing is trusted and safe from corruption by users or attackers. The hardware that could support such trusted execution environments is however closed to the research community: OEMs disable security extensions from their development boards and the software handling these security extensions is not open. In this paper we present a framework that combines commercially available hardware and open source software. It can be used today by the research community as a trusted execution environment to investigate future big data platforms.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCyberspace Safety and Security - 5th International Symposium, CSS 2013, Proceedings
Number of pages10
Publication date2013
Pages458-467
ISBN (Print)9783319035833
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes
Event5th International Symposium on Cyberspace Safety and Security, CSS 2013 - Zhangjiajie, China
Duration: 13 Nov 201315 Nov 2013

Conference

Conference5th International Symposium on Cyberspace Safety and Security, CSS 2013
Country/TerritoryChina
CityZhangjiajie
Period13/11/201315/11/2013
SponsorNational Natural Science Foundation of China, Springer, School of Information Science and Engineering, at Central South University, School of Software at Central South University, Inder-Science IJCSE
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume8300 LNCS
ISSN0302-9743

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