Interview - Ned Smith

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0:00 Hi, I'm Ned Smith and I am a researcher in trusted computing. I've spent 30 years

0:08 doing hardware trusted computing and I'm also interested in secure asset transfers

0:15 based on protocols that are being defined in the Internet Engineering Task Force.

0:20 And my presentation today was to overview where we're at with the definition of the

0:26 SATP protocol. In particular, how a SATP protocol is tied to authorization

0:36 mechanisms that are important for legal responsibility when assets are

0:42 transferred. Yeah, so one of the things that sets me apart as a researcher in

0:50 trusted computing is my experience working with trust both from a hardware side but

0:57 also from an infrastructure side. And focused a lot of my career around this

1:03 notion of device attestation which is providing evidence about the environment

1:08 in which applications or workloads run so that a remote entity can verify that the

1:16 environment is trustworthy not only that the workload is trustworthy. And so I'm

1:22 incorporating that kind of thinking into to not only the work that's being done in

1:27 the ITF in the RATS working group which I chair but also in other standards and

1:34 architectures that I influence.