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Whether in large corporate networks or in the smart home area – each individual device plays an important role in the security of the entire system. As a result, embedded devices also represent an attractive target for attackers.

For devices in the Internet of Things, identities and their integrity are of central importance: Industrie 4.0, Smart Home or Smart Traffic only work if each machine, each piece of hardware, each device has its own non-clonable identity, which also includes the integrity of the running firmware.

To meet these challenges, Fraunhofer SIT uses the principle of Trusted Computing. The use of hardware trust anchors ensures data confidentiality and data integrity in embedded systems. Fraunhofer SIT develops the necessary technologies and solutions to implement Trusted Computing in cooperation with partners in research and industry.

Our Expertise

With more than 15 years of experience, the experts at Fraunhofer SIT are leading in the field of Trusted Computing:

The standard-compliant TPM/TSS Software Stack 2.0 has been co-developed by Fraunhofer experts, the implementation as well as the programming is completed and available on Github. Here, Fraunhofer SIT experts are maintainers, and they handle requests, improvements and messages about security flaws.
Fraunhofer experts helped to develop an OpenSSL engine that makes TPM 2.0 and TSS 2.0 usable.
Fraunhofer SIT experts are leading the standardization in the TPM software stack working group of the Trusted Computing Group (TCG).
Our experts are regularly invited to speak at relevant conferences such as the LPC (Linux Plumbers Conference), the ELCE (Embedded Linux Conference Europe), or the FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Software Developers‘ European Meeting).