From: niemz@ira.uka.de (Stephan Niemz) Subject: Secure Booting Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1993 16:01:39 GMT
Has anybody tried to implement a Secure Booting Concept, like
described in "Gasser et al.: The Digital Distributed Security
Architecture, National Computer Security Conference, Baltimore,
USA 1989"?
This concept means successive checking of digital signatures
of executables before running it on the system - even during
booting phase. The checks are starting with checking of signature
of boot loader code, then checking the signature of the operating
system code, then the signatures of the applications. Besides
this functionality, an authentication procedure for the booted
system node is offered to remote users of the system.
-- Stephan Niemz niemz@ira.uka.de stephan@sunlab.ka.sub.org Karlsruhe, Germany