A Peer-to-Peer resource sharing scheme using trusted computing technology

Facing the increasing security issues in P2P networks, a scheme for resource sharing using trusted computing technologies is proposed in this paper. We advance a RS-UCON model with decision continuity and attribute mutability to control the usage process and an architecture to illustrate how TC technologies support policy enforcement with bidirectional attestation. The properties required for attestation should include not only integrity measurement value of platform and related application, but also reputation of users and access history, in order to avoid the limitation of the existing approaches. To make a permission, it is required to evaluate both the authorization and conditions of the subject and the object in resource usage to ensure trustable resources to be transferred to trusted users and platform. Foundation item: Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (60673071, 60743003, 90718005, 90718006) and the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (2006AA01Z442, 2007AA01Z411)