Emulating Trust Zone in Android Emulator with Secure Channeling
There is a raise in penetration of smart phone while using enterprise application, as most of them are downloaded from the public market, resulting in challenge for security framework, causing a threat to lose sensitive user data. To prevent this ARM introduces the virtualization technique in hardware level, which prevents processing of trusted application that is completely isolated from general processing. To improvise this, we need to understand ARM Architecture; however it is still black box for users and developers. In this article, we take a deep look at the hardware architecture of the ARM trust zone to study and analyze its implementation and also to create its replica in emulator. Moreover we describe feasibility of various designs, implementation of trust zone feature in android emulator; with sample trusted application called secure channeling and concludes with annotation of suitable design on future enhancement. The security domain for secure processing and utility in emulator is to benefit the user and developer community.
Keywords: Trust zone, Emulator, Android, Virtualization, Security and Secure Channeling
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Arun Muthu
Arun Muthu is an Information Security Manager in Feeders Technologies, India founded in 2008. He is responsible for providing security solution to the corporate business and research. He works closely with feeders leaders in driving the growth & expansion of the company’s revenue & market. He holds Master degree in Information & Communication System Security from Kungl Tekniska Högskolan (KTH), Sweden 2012. His master degree and his earlier background at Cognizant and Sony Mobile provide him with a solid foundation for research innovation in recent years. His areas of interest are Cryptography, Secure Software Engineering, Privacy, and Trusted Computing.
Rahim Rahmani
Dr. Rahim Rahmani is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and system science in University of Stockholm from 2012, focusing on QoS and optimization for management of cloud computing infrastructure and wireless sensor networks, such as OpenFlow. He earned a technical doctorate in adaptive Active Queue Management (AQM) algorithms for access routers in heterogeneous networks. He has served as reviewer and in technical committees of international conferences. He is a member of the editorial board of International Journal of Wireless Networking and Communications.
Dinakaran Rajaram
Dinakaran Rajaram joined Feeders Technologies as Researcher in Information Security as well as IT Security Auditor from April 2013.He obtained his Bachelor of Technology (Information Technology) degree in 2009 from Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai and Master of Science degree in Information & Communication System Security from Kungl Tekniska Högskolan (KTH) in 2012. He is recipient of “Erasmus Mundus” scholarship for his master studies. His researches interests are Security Protocol design, Trusted Computing, Identity Theft, Cryptography and Secure Channeling.
Arun Muthu
Arun Muthu is an Information Security Manager in Feeders Technologies, India founded in 2008. He is responsible for providing security solution to the corporate business and research. He works closely with feeders leaders in driving the growth & expansion of the company’s revenue & market. He holds Master degree in Information & Communication System Security from Kungl Tekniska Högskolan (KTH), Sweden 2012. His master degree and his earlier background at Cognizant and Sony Mobile provide him with a solid foundation for research innovation in recent years. His areas of interest are Cryptography, Secure Software Engineering, Privacy, and Trusted Computing.
Rahim Rahmani
Dr. Rahim Rahmani is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and system science in University of Stockholm from 2012, focusing on QoS and optimization for management of cloud computing infrastructure and wireless sensor networks, such as OpenFlow. He earned a technical doctorate in adaptive Active Queue Management (AQM) algorithms for access routers in heterogeneous networks. He has served as reviewer and in technical committees of international conferences. He is a member of the editorial board of International Journal of Wireless Networking and Communications.
Dinakaran Rajaram
Dinakaran Rajaram joined Feeders Technologies as Researcher in Information Security as well as IT Security Auditor from April 2013.He obtained his Bachelor of Technology (Information Technology) degree in 2009 from Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai and Master of Science degree in Information & Communication System Security from Kungl Tekniska Högskolan (KTH) in 2012. He is recipient of “Erasmus Mundus” scholarship for his master studies. His researches interests are Security Protocol design, Trusted Computing, Identity Theft, Cryptography and Secure Channeling.
