Identity credential issuance with trusted computing

In a client-server environment that deals with multiple clients,there is a need to provide a mechanism on the server to manage the issuance of the client credentials for security authorization. Credentials created using a particular own platform identities and functions as an authentication credentials to authenticate the platform itself in a network communication.However, these credentials can easily be shared, copied and stolen.This will led to an anonymous service sharing and worst to come when the stolen credentials is using for phishing attacks to the original user.One solution to the problem is to use tamper-resistant hardware to which a credential is bound such that a credential can only be generated and used in connection with the hardware.For that, manufacturers have started to embed into computers a tamper resistant piece of hardware, called trusted platform modules(TPM), as specified by the Trusted Computing Group.This mechanism insures that credentials can only be issued with the TPM existence in the platform thus guarantees the platform origins.This paper describes the component involved in the credential issuance method by the server trusted computing domain.To implement our approach, a client server application is used as an interface through the secure communication channel in credential request.The server acts as a Trusted Third Party to verify authorized users in this environment

Hand gesture recognition using hidden markov models: a review on techniques and approaches

Many ways of communications are used between human and computer, while using gesture is considered to be one of the most natural ways in a virtual reality system. Hand gesture is one of the typical methods of non-verbal communication for human beings and we naturally use various gestures to express our own intentions in everyday life. Gesture recognizers are supposed to capture and analyze the information transmitted by the hands of a person who communicates in sign language. This is a prerequisite for automatic sign-to-spoken-language translation, which has the potential to support the integration of deaf people into society. This paper present part of literature review on ongoing research and findings on different technique and approaches in gesture recognition using Hidden Markov Models for vision-based approach

Secure System Architecture for Wide Area Surveillance Using Security, Trust and Privacy (STP) Framework

Abstract Mobile computing emerged in the market for the past few years to provide solution for various platforms that range from smart phone, tablet, laptop, desktop computer, server to virtual computing systems such as cloud computing. The design approach and development of solutions for mobile computing continues to evolve in fulfilling the needs of diverse applications that run on various platforms. Recently, a new framework was introduced to provide a unified approach to resolve Security, Trust and Privacy (STP) enhancement on these platforms. This new framework emerged to enable a better way of dealing with security, trust and privacy conflicting aspects in pervasive environment such as mobile computing. This framework will be useful for system architects, engineers, designers and developers that are still struggling to create a secure, trustworthy, and privacy preserved environment to create confidence amongst users to do business transactions and collaborations especially in a more challenging environment such as cloud computing. In this paper, we discuss and propose new Secure System Architecture for strengthening surveillance activities in Wide Area using a combination of Trusted Computing (TC) via mutual attestation process to ensure integrity of components of the system, and Surveillance System. We further propose using Intel AMT chip that will generate a heartbeat pulse and transmit the signal through network interface to detect any possible physical intrusion. A failure to provide this pulse within a given time frame will trigger an action by the trusted security system for further analysis such as thievery detection