[Trustedjava-support] acTvSM platform released!

[Ronald T. <ron...@ia...>]

Dear TrustedJava users!

We are proud to announces the first public release of the acTvSM trusted 
virtualization platform.

For engineering a trusted application the current main challenge is to 
maintain a known-good software configuration. acTvSM is designed to 
provide this on commodity hardware for commodity software.

The IAIK acTvSM Platform is a prototype integration of Intel Trusted 
Execution Technology into an off-the-shelf Linux operating system. The 
Linux boot process is modified so that the acTvSM platform offers 
TPM-based guarantees for base system integrity. Further, on top of the 
base system, virtualized applications can be executed. A set of tools 
and operational procedures allow flexible configuration management and 
updates.

The initial version of the platform is available under a license free 
for research purposes at the Trusted Computing for the Java Platform 
[http://trustedjava.sourceforge.net/] website .  Development of this 
package is supported by the Austrian FIT-IT Trust in IT Systems 
programme, project acTvSM 
[http://www.iaik.tugraz.at/content/research/trusted_computing/actvsm/].

We are looking forward to your experience reports!

Ronald

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Dipl.-Ing. Ronald Tögl          phone +43 316/873-5502
Trusted Computing Labs          fax   +43 316/873-5520
IAIK                            ron...@ia...
Graz University of Technology   http://www.iaik.tugraz.at