Chapter 6
Trusted Boot
As described in Chapter 1, “Introduction to Trusted Computing,” one of the goals of TCG is to establish at boot time that the booted operating system has not been compromised. This “trusted boot” has to establish that the entire boot chain, including master boot record, boot loader, kernel, drivers, and all files referenced or executed during boot, have not changed in any way. There are two ways that TGC defines to establish this trust during boot: static root of trust and dynamic root of trust. This chapter discusses how you create a trusted boot state using the following:
- The static root of trust
- Trust chains
- The dynamic root of trust
- Localities
Trusted Boot with Static Root of Trust
In the static root of trust method, ...
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