Design and Analysis of a Modified Remote Attestation Protocol

Abstract

Secure interaction amongst system components is inherent to ensure the trustworthiness of the applications. In a distributed system, the attester should know whether the communicating client as well as the user who is using that client system is trustworthy. This can be achieved by a technique called remote attestation. This study presents a three-phase remote attestation protocol which provides relaxation over the low extensibility and low openness problem of binary remote attestation method, using the support of the SELinux module. It also analyses the performance of different existing and related binary remote attestation methods with the proposed approach which shows that the suggested remote attestation method is efficient. The results of the formal analysis are achieved using ProVerif tool which proves that the proposed remote attestation protocol satisfies several security properties such as secrecy, authenticity, indistinguishability and unlinkability.