Acpi: Design principles and concerns

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Abstract

ACPI (Advanced Configuration Power Interface) allows operating systems to efficiently configure the hardware platform they are running on and deal with power management tasks. These tasks used to be achieved by the BIOS because it was the only platform component to know which specific chipset or device registers dealt with power management. In this paper, we illustrate how this shift in the global power management model introduces additional threats, especially for trusted platforms, by showing how rootkits can use ACPI to conceal some of their functions. We also study the relationship between trusted computing blocks and ACPI.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationTrusted Computing - Second International Conference, Trust 2009, Proceedings
Pages14-28
Number of pages15
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 9 Nov 2009
Externally publishedYes
Event2nd International Conference on Trusted Computing, Trust 2009 - Oxford, United Kingdom
Duration: 6 Apr 20098 Apr 2009

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume5471 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference2nd International Conference on Trusted Computing, Trust 2009
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityOxford
Period6/04/098/04/09

Keywords

  • ACPI
  • Rootkits
  • Trusted platforms

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