Benchmarking the Security Protocol and Data Model (SPDM) for component authentication. (arXiv:2307.06456v1 [cs.CR])

Efforts to secure computing systems via software traditionally focus on the
operating system and application levels. In contrast, the Security Protocol and
Data Model (SPDM) tackles firmware level security challenges, which are much
harder (if at all possible) to detect with regular protection software. SPDM
includes key features like enabling peripheral authentication, authenticated
hardware measurements retrieval, and secure session establishment. Since SPDM
is a relatively recent proposal, there is a lack of studies evaluating its
performance impact on real-world applications. …

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