CHAPTER 25

Technology for Trusted Cloud Security: Survey and Open Issues

Roberto Di Pietro

Università di Padova

Padova, Italy

Flavio Lombardi

IAC-CNR

Rome, Italy

Matteo Signorini

Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Barcelona, Spain

Contents

25.1 Introduction

25.2 Technological Background

25.2.1 Trusted Computing—Key Concepts

25.2.2 Some Criticism of Trusted Computing

25.2.3 Some TEE Use Cases

25.3 TPM Implementations

25.3.1 ARM Trustzone

25.3.2 AMD Secure Processor

25.3.3 Intel SGX

25.4 Trusted Computing and the Cloud

25.5 Secure Elements in the Cloud

25.5.1 Host Card Emulation

25.5.2 Containers as a Security Solution

25.6 Relevant Related Work

25.7 Summary

References

25.1 Introduction

Cloud computing (see Figure 25.1) provides many benefits to organizations ...

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