A case for remote attestation in programmable dataplanes
Nik Sultana, Deborah Shands, Vinod Yegneswaran · 2022
Programmability is a double-edged sword. It can better tailor solutions to problems, optimize resource use, and inexpensively patch deployed equipment. But programmability can also be abused to undermine the security of hardware and that of its unwitting users. Remote Attestation (RA) is a class of techniques to provide integrity assurance to remote users of resources such as hardware, OSs and applications. It is used to establish well-defined trust relationships among mutually distrustful principals who provide, use or delegate remote resources. RA could benefit, for example, tenants of a data-center or users of IoT equipment such as health monitors.