TrustyShare: A Sharing Scheme using ARM TrustZone

Abstract

As the applications on smartphones and tablets are getting richer and more powerful, people are more willing to do their daily works and entertainments on mobile devices. Sharing and collaborating on these devices in a convenient and safe way has become a growing demand in modern life. However, due to the lack of a flexible access control strategy of the official online services, typical applications such as email, video and music do not support this kind of sharing scheme. In this paper, we propose TrustyShare to provide a general sharing solution based on the ARM TrustZone technology which has a extremely wide range of applications in mobile terminal devices and Internet of Things devices. Our solution allows users to share services they enjoy without the official support from these services, while avoiding the disclosure of their private credentials. In addition, credential owners have full control on how and when others can use their services through flexible access control policies. We implement our solution on OP-TEE platform, and our experimental results demonstrate that TrustyShare works well with good performance.