Seminar Distributed Systems: "Trusted Execution"

29.04.2015: Tuesday, 9:45 (IZ Room 105) KickOff, topic selection

Weekly meeting every Tuesday at 11:30 till 1pm starting 02.06.2015 (IZ Room 105).

Overview

The NSA spying scandal boomed people's eagerness to enhance the security and privacy of their data, especially in clouds. In this seminar, we are going to investigate some of the latest technology provided by both academia and industry, for implementing Trusted Execution. Our seminar will cover the most crucial and critical topics:

• Trusted Execution and Isolation
• Minimized TCB
• Trusted Mobile Platforms
• Late Loading Mechanisms
• Hardware extensions such as ARM TrustZone and Intel SGX

Seminar Topics

Course

This seminar will be given in english. Each participant will take one of the specified topics. Participants are responsible for a peer review, including:

• Attend peer's presentation dry run and give feedback.
• Review peer's report before submission.

Notes

Please submit the elaboration as well as your presentation slides. The requirements for presentation and elaboration are listed as follows:

• Please give presentation and finish elaboration in English.
• The presentation takes about 30 minutes.
• The extent of elaboration should include 8-10 pages.

Each paticipant is supposed to do further research based on the paper. The supervisors are always glad to help in this case.

The strength of the university depends on academic and personal integrity. In this seminar, reports must be done in your own words. Plagiarism is an offense against the examination regulations.

The LaTeX template for seminar report can be found here, you can also have a look at the PDF-Format.

Additional considerations for the design of the report can be found on the website of IBR.

Presentation templates are available on our Website.

Each seminar participant will receive an account for the access to the computer of the institute.

The material is only available to registered attendees. In order to register, you need either an IBR POSIX account or a self-activated IBR-y-account. Afterwards you can login to this site.

Chapter

Slides

Exercises

1. Organisatorisches und Einfuehrung

On World-Wide-Web, there are different ways to enhance your seminar presentations:

• Seminarvortrag - Hinweise zur Präsentation, Friedemann Mattern, ETH Zürich
• How to Give a Talk, Paul N. Edwards, School of Information, University of Michigan

For the literature review there links might be helpful:

• ACM Digital Library
• IEEE Xplore
• Network Bibliography
• Citeseer (Research Index) citation index
• Google Scholar

Here are some Tips+Tricks of (La)TeX