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 Trusted Compute
 ---------------
 
-Compute security relates to the compute nodes in an OPNFV deployment.
-Compute nodes host various componants such as the hypervisor itself KVM-QEMU,
-and its serving eco-system, such as Nova (which interacts with the hypervisor using libvirt driver).
+Trusted compute is centered on insuring the complete lifecycle of a VM, and
+the VM's underlying infrastructure is of a 'trustful' state.
+
+**Trusted computing in a cloud environment**
+
+To ensure overall security in an OPNFV deployment, both the launch and the
+operation of virtualized resources need to be secure. To build a trusted
+computing in a cloud environment the following core features are essential:
+
+* boot integrity - the hardware platform can guarantee a trustworthy RoT for the overall cloud environment
+* secure management of VMs – to secure the launch and migration of VMs in the cloud environment
+
+In this section we will cover some aspects of what is considered compute
+security, such as secure/trusted boot, although of course these can be
+extended to other actors such as neutron networking nodes.
+
+Secure Boot
+###########
+
+Secure boot, a UEFI-based feature that has become controversial lately,
+ensures that nodes in an OPNFV deployment boot only software that is trusted
+by the admin or end user.
+
+In order to understand the secure boot procedure, we need to explain the related technology
+and specification.
+
+**Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)**
+
+UEFI is a specification intended to be the replacement and improvement on the
+old BIOS (Basic Input/Output System).
+
+One UEFI-based feature that has become controversial lately is the secure boot feature.
+
+The UEFI specification is a standard that’s handled by a non-profit organization
+with representatives of Intel, AMD, Microsoft, Apple, Dell, HP, IBM and others,
+called the Unified EFI Forum.
+
+UEFI supports 32 and 64 bit processors and can be used with Itanium, x86,
+x64 and ARM processors.
+
+**Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) vs Trusted Platform Mobile (TPM)**
+
+Two main components of platform security:
+
+* Trusted Execution Environment
+* Trusted Platform Module
+
+These are not designed as a replacement of the other. TEE is the bulletproof
+safe, while TPM is the 128-digit combination lock for the safe. Both are
+needed to ensure the safe is protected.
+
+TPM is a dependency of TEE but not the other way around.
+
+The TPM is where TEE will store the measurements - hash of components - of the platform.
+
+If TEE is not supported by a platform but a TPM is still present you still have
+all these features:
+
+* Integrity measurement – securely measure the platform's components (hashes stored within the TPM)
+
+* Authenticated boot – a process by which a platform's state (the sum of its
+  components) is reliably measured and stored
+
+* SRTM - Static Root of Trust for Measurements
+
+* Sealed Storage - encrypt data based on the current state of the platform
+  or in other words, what has been measured (the PCR hash values stored in the
+  TPM) - seal operation
+
+* Attestation - securely report to other parties the state of the platform
+
+
+Trusted Compute Pools
+#####################
+
+**Trusted Boot**
+
+Trusted boot (tboot) is an open source, pre- kernel/VMM module that uses
+Intel(R) Trusted Execution Technology (Intel(R) TXT) to perform a measured
+and verified launch of an OS kernel/VMM. The root of trust is in the hardware
+and a TPM is required. Compute nodes in an OPNFV deployment boot with Intel
+TXT technology enabled.
+
+Read more about `Trusted Boot <http://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/resources/trusted_boot>`_ and
+`Trusted Computing. <http://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/trusted_computing>`_
+
+**Trusted Execution Environments (TEE)**
+
+The Trusted Execution Environment is an isolated execution environment which
+provides higher level of security such as isolated execution, integrity of
+Trusted Applications along with confidentiality of their assets.
+
+**Goals of a Trusted Execution Environments:**
+
+* Isolated Execution
+* Secure Storage
+* Remote Attestation
+* Secure Provisioning
+* Trusted Path
+
+**TEE platforms/implementations**
+
+* Intel’s TXT (Trusted Execution Technology)
+* AMD Secure Execution Environment
+* ARM TrustZone
+
+All three of these TEE implementations provide a virtualized Execution
+Environment for the secure OS and applications.
+
+To switch between the secure world and the normal world, Intel provides SMX
+Instructions, while ARM uses SMC. Programmatically, they all achieve very
+similar results.
+
+Read more about Trusted Execution Environments `here. <http://www.openvirtualization.org/open-source-arm-trustzone.html>`_
+
+`NIST SP800-147 <http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-147/NIST-SP800-147-April2011.pdf>`_
+, is a  guidelines for firmware security, to ensure that the firmware itself is secure.
+
+Read more about "Trusted compute pools", in the
+`OpenStack Security Guide. <http://docs.openstack.org/admin-guide-cloud/compute-security.html>`_
 
-We also cover other aspects of what is considered compute security,
-such as trusted boot / pools, although of course,
-these can be extended to other actors such as neutron etworking nodes.