National Defense Pre-research Foundation of China (No.9140A15040211CB3901);National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.61003268);Fund of Zhejiang Provincial Education Department (No.Y201224055)
Chain of trust (CoT) is one of the key technologies for constructing trusted system.As viewed from theories and application systems of CoT
this paper introduced several representative models and the latest investigations including noninterference-based CoT theory and composition security-based CoT theory firstly.Afterward
this paper expatiated advantage and shortage of two CoT theories in detail.Secondly
this paper introduced the development of application systems comprising static CoT and dynamic CoT
and analyzed the remote attestation technology of chain of trust
and presented the CoT systems in cloud computing environment
and analyzed the security deficiency of those systems
and then discussed the conformance testing and security evaluation for CoT application system.Finally
this paper put forward the research and development trend for CoT.