Pioneer: verifying code integrity and enforcing untampered code execution on legacy systems
| Title | Pioneer: verifying code integrity and enforcing untampered code execution on legacy systems |
| Publication Type | Journal Articles |
| Year of Publication | 2005 |
| Authors | Seshadri A, Luk M, Elaine Shi, Perrig A, van Doorn L, Khosla P |
| Journal | ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pagination | 1 - 16 |
| Date Published | 2005 |
| ISBN Number | 0163-5980 |
| Keywords | dynamic root of trust, rootkit detection, self-check-summing code, software-based code attestation, verifiable code execution |
| Abstract | We propose a primitive, called Pioneer, as a first step towards verifiable code execution on untrusted legacy hosts. Pioneer does not require any hardware support such as secure co-processors or CPU-architecture extensions. We implement Pioneer on an Intel Pentium IV Xeon processor. Pioneer can be used as a basic building block to build security systems. We demonstrate this by building a kernel rootkit detector. |
| URL | http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1095809.1095812 |