A Practical Hardware-Assisted Approach to Customize Trusted Boot for Mobile Devices

Javier Gonzalez, Michael Hölzl, Peter Riedl, Philippe Bonnet, René Mayrhofer

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Abstract

Current efforts to increase the security of the boot sequence for mobile devices fall into two main categories: (i) secure boot: where each stage in the boot sequence is evaluated, aborting the boot process if a non expected component attempts to be loaded; and (ii) trusted boot: where a log is maintained with the components that have been loaded in the boot process for later audit. The first approach is often criticized for locking down devices, thus reducing users’ freedom to choose software. The second lacks the mechanisms to enforce any form of run-time verification. In this paper, we present the architecture for a two-phase boot verification that addresses these shortcomings. In the first phase, at boot-time the integrity of the bootloader and OS images are verified and logged; in the second phase, at run-time applications can check the boot traces and verify that the running software satisfies their security requirements. This is a first step towards supporting usage control primitives for running applications. Our approach relies on off-the-shelf secure hardware that is available in a multitude of mobile devices: ARM TrustZone as a Trusted Execution Environment, and Secure Element as a tamper-resistant unit.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
BogserieLecture Notes in Computer Science
Vol/bind8783
Sider (fra-til)542-554
Antal sider13
ISSN0302-9743
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2014

Emneord

  • Secure boot
  • Trusted boot
  • Mobile device security
  • Boot sequence verification
  • Trusted Execution Environment

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