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Seminar on Network Security
Introduction of the topics and some material for the session ofTerminal security
Tamper resistant modules in information security
Tutor: Tommi Elo-
Hardware modules or tokens have been used for a long time in
security architectures. Smart cards are a prime example of
such modules and are widely used at least in financial systems,
mobile phones and payTV content protection systems. However,
smart cards are not the only types of security modules around.
Other types of modules include security processors and dongles
used in software protection systems.
- B. Schneier and A. Shostack, Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: Modeling
Security Threats for Smart Cards http://www.counterpane.com/smart-card-threats.html
- R. Anderson and M. Kuhn, Tamper Resistance - a Cautionary Note http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/tamper.html
- M. Kuhn, Attacks on Pay-TV Access Control Systems
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/vc-slides.pdf
- Securing the Content, Not the Wire, for Information Commerce http://www.intertrust.com/star/secure-the-content.html
The goal of the resulting paper is to explain the different requirements set for the level of tamper resistance in different applications. The limitations of tamper resistance should be clarified together with methods used in achieving tamper resistance. A survey of security architectures relying on tamper resistance and their success is also expected.
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