Guest editorial: high performance trusted computing

Abstract

Nowadays, information security has become a key challenge for designers and developers of most systems and applications. Under the situation, TC (trusted computing) is required. In technical fields, US government issued TCSEC (trusted computer system evaluation criteria) in 1983. The Trusted Computing Group (TCG), successor to the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance (TCPA), is an initiative started by AMD, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Infineon, Intel, Microsoft, and Sun in 2003. In research fields, IEEE has published the transactions on dependable and secure computing in 2004. With the development of trusted computing application, trusted computing technology has become a hot topic in the field of information security. To provide snapshots of current research in the field of high performance trusted computing, we map out this special issue to document state-of-the-art research, new developments, and directions for future investigation in this field. This special issue consists of six papers, selected from twenty-one submitted papers, which can be considered a significant contribution to the field of high performance trusted computing. We expect that our selection could provide the usual readers of the journal with useful knowledge. We