Preliminary Security Requirements for SecureCore Hardware

Abstract

This document describes a set of preliminary high level security requirements for the SecureCore hardware base (SCHW). A SecureCore (SC) component is anticipated to be a mobile networked device capable of operating in different modes with different levels of trust. To promote rapid user acceptability, it is essential that security features implemented in the SC architecture must minimize changes to existing application-level software. The SCHW security requirements are specified in terms of the following capabilities: hardware virtualization, protected processing environment, protected memory management, secure I/O channels, secure boot, secure system maintenance, concealed execution mode, trusted platform attestation and hardware isolation of security critical functions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA457517

Entities

People

  • Cynthia E. Irvin
  • Ganesha Bhaskara
  • Terry V. Benzel
  • Thuy D. Nguyen
  • Timothy E. Levin

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acceptability
  • California
  • Commodities
  • Computations
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Environment
  • Information Science
  • Maintenance
  • Materials
  • Operating Systems
  • Platforms
  • Schools
  • Security
  • Virtual Machines
  • Virtualization

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

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  • Software Engineering