A Survey on Hardware Approaches for Remote Attestation in Network Infrastructures
It addresses security assurance for network nodes in contexts like cloud computing and IoT, but is incremental as it reviews existing approaches.
This survey examines hardware-based remote attestation schemes for network infrastructures, focusing on their security objectives, scalability, and efficiency, and identifies open research challenges and potential solutions.
Remote attestation schemes have been utilized for assuring the integrity of a network node to a remote verifier. In recent years, a number of remote attestation schemes have been proposed for various contexts such as cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoTs) and critical network infrastructures. These attestation schemes provide a different perspective in terms of security objectives, scalability and efficiency. In this report, we focus on remote attestation schemes that use a hardware device and cryptographic primitives to assist with the attestation of nodes in a network infrastructure. We also point towards the open research challenges that await the research community and propose possible avenues of addressing these challenges.