Security Engineering is a research group based in Peshawar, Pakistan specializing in security and service oriented architectures related areas. Our areas of focus are Remote attestation via Trusted Computing standards on ubiquitous and mobile platforms. Our research proposes behavioral paradigm for remote attestation. The purpose of this blog i...Read More
This is somewhat old news but Ubuntu is now aiming at mobile platforms with ARM processors. The article mentions that a port of Ubuntu for Intel’s Atom processor is already available. It remains to be seen whether providing a PC distribution on the contemporary smart phone will be enough. I don’t...
Behavioral Attestation for Web Services (BA4WS) presented in Secure Web Services (SWS’08) at the Conference on Computers and Communications Security (CCS’08) is available online. See details here: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1456492.1456496.
“VMware on Monday extended its virtualization platform to the mobile phone platform with the unveiling of its VMware Mobile Virtualization Platform based on a previously unannounced acquisition it closed last month.The new platform lets mobile phone users work with multiple virtual phones at the...
Looking at different discussions regarding about Android, Dalvik, Java, Google and Sun, I came across this excellent article. It discusses the moves by Sun and Google on the Java and Android platforms. Also, take a look at Harmony by Apache. It’s a fork of the Java libraries and as such, should...
SACMAT 2009 call for papers is out:
http://www.sacmat.org/2009/date.php
* January 16
o Deadline for submission of paper
* January 16
o Deadline for submission of panel proposal
* March 6
o Acceptance notification
* March 31
o Deadline for camera-ready copies of the accepted papers
* June 3-5
o SACMAT...
Mobilware in Berlin, Germany:
http://www.mobilware.org/cfp.shtml
Important Dates
Paper Submission Due Date: November 23, 2008
Workshop/Tutorial Proposals Due Date: December 1, 2008
Notification of Acceptance: February 1, 2009
Camera Ready Versions Due: February 20, 2009
Conference...
Website for the project, “Ensuring Consent and Revocation” has been udpated. Information can be seen at the project website here.
I came across (once again, after a long time) this blog called Blog of Trust with lots of information about Trusted Computing, Remote Attestation and mobile platforms. The author (according to the About page) is an employee of the TCG.
Two of the posts I found very interesting were:
1. “OKL4 and...

