Hardware assisted operating systems have their origins in microprogramming from the early 1970’s. In 2014, Renesas marketed a hardware based operating system in the R-IN32M microprocessor. It is time for cybersecurity to consider the security benefits of moving hypervisor and OS features into hardware. A trusted computing base architecture using a hardware state machine separation kernel is the future of cybersecurity. In this paper, we will research a hardware state machine as the trusted computing base. A traditional operating system provides security for applications software. We are interested in a state machine monitor to secure the execution of instructions and provide separation kernel features.

Date Published: 10 May 2019
PDF: 12 pages
Proc. SPIE 11013, Disruptive Technologies in Information Sciences II, 110130J (10 May 2019); doi: 10.1117/12.2513224

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 11013:
Disruptive Technologies in Information Sciences II
Misty Blowers; Russell D. Hall; Venkateswara R. Dasari, Editor(s)