Scalable Trust Infrastructures (S01)

• Subject Area: Security and Dependability, Operating-, Communication- and Distributed Systems
• Term: from 2014 to 2018
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 236615297

Trust assessment of digital objects and the provision of trustworthy cryptographic keys are the foundation for secure communications. Exiting solutions mostly focus on “hard trust” and only insufficiently link trust to the physical world, making them inadequate for the Internet of Things (IoT). The goal of Project S1 is to provide a foundation for tamper-proof, context-aware and decentralized trust mechanisms for the IoT. This goal will be achieved by leveraging a cross-layer approach for establishing context information, and adapting the consensus guarantees of blockchain technology to make trust information tamper-proof.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1119: CROSSING - Cryptography-Based Security Solutions: Enabling Trust in New and Next Generation Computing Environments
• Applicant Institution: Technische Universität Darmstadt
• Project Heads: Professor Dr.-Ing. Matthias Hollick; Professor Dr. Max Mühlhäuser