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Dartmouth.edu: Bear: An Open-Source Virtual Secure Coprocessor Based on TCPA

[ Thanks to David for this link.
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“This paper reports on our ongoing project to use TCPA to
transform a desktop Linux machine into a virtual secure
coprocessor: more powerful but less secure than higher-end devices.
We use TCPA hardware and modified boot loaders to protect fairly
static components, such as a trusted kernel; we use an enforcer
module–configured as Linux Security Module–to protected more
dynamic system components; we use an encrypted loopback filesystem
to protect highly dynamic components.

“All our code is open source and available under GPL from
http://enforcer.sourceforge.net/…”

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