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The goal of the thesis is to investigate the new technologies for designing trusted computing platforms for e-services comprising electronic cash, email, hot-desking (allowing mobile users to share a pool of computers), platform management, single sign-on (enabling users to authenticate himself just once when using different applications during the same work session), virtual private networks and clusters, Web access, on-line transactions, handling classified information and digital rights management. The basic concepts in the trusted platform model will be considered such as storing keys, digital certificates, passwords and data securely in hardware, enhancing network and cluster security, protecting online business and commerce transactions, helping protect against viruses, worms and other malicious attacks, protecting digital identities, providing authentication between systems and networks, enabling digital signatures for financial and other transactions, supporting e-government applications.
The technologies for designing trusted operating systems will be of special interest in respect to their additional security functionality such as trust management, access control lists, security event handling, and mandatory access control. Protecting client privacy with trusted computing at the server by utilizing trusted hardware will be an important issue in the PhD thesis. A significant problem to be considered is the possibility to allow complete and binding online e-government transactions to be carried out on the Internet by using digital signatures applying the standard OSCI (Online Service Computer Interface), which is currently the mandatory standard for web-based transactions of the German’s government’s “Standards and Architectures for E-Government Applications (SAGA) policy and is tailored to the requirements of the European Union electronic signatures directive.
The thesis will address the performance issues of trusted applications and the optimization of the software and hardware issues that trusted computing affects.
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