1st SEE-INNOVATION Know-how Transfer Event

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1st SEE-INNOVATION Know-how Transfer Event

• Participation in European Framework Programmes
• Technical University of Sofia
• Bulgaria

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Open_TC Open Trusted Computing

• Integrated Project No. 027635
• Overview August 2005

The Open_TC project receives research funding
from the Communitys Sixth Framework Programme.
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Open_TC Vision

• Create IT systems that are reliable and resilient
  to attacks to ensure private data protection and
  confidentiality
• Design and implementation of a layered system
  architecture with a Trusted Platform Module (TPM)
  at its core that is capable of hosting Linux or
  other operating systems in protected compartments
  acting as policy domains
• Development of an universal usable architecture
  and framework for trust and security and a
  platform including enabling technologies for
  complex heterogeneous communication and data
  processing networks
• Make trusted computing available as an open
  technology and allow everyone to use this
  technology (esp. trusted OS) within different
  systems and usage scenarios
• Increase privacy protection, improve the
  usability and enable trust and confidence in
  future information and communication technologies
• Derive new requirements how to evaluate SW from
  an Open Source development process

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Open_TC Objectives

• Secure open source operating system
• Develop a secure OS and related protocol and
  management software
• Trusted Booting and disc volume encryption
  Implementation of virtualisation layer TSS stack
  for the TPM and first management SW for
  performing elementary TPM functionalities
  General interfaces and control capabilities for
  intra- as well as inter-OS communication and
  external useable security APIs
• Prototype applications
• Proof-of-Concept for digital signing and
  verification
• Integration of TC into existing Public Key
  Infrastructures
• Attestation and zero knowledge authentication
• Develop Trusted WYSIWYS (What You See Is What you
  Sign)
• Adapting the TC APIs (especially the TSS stack of
  the TPM) to other programming languages
• Analysis of special requirements of mobile phone
  security sensitive platforms and showing
  prototype security application
• Distribution package (SUSE) for OPEN_TC
  functionalities
• First version of a trusted Linux
• Quality analysis and security evaluation (CAL 5)

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Open_TC Project

• Project Parameters
• Duration 3,5 years (October 2005 March 2009)
• Budget M 17,1 Effort 175 person years
• 23 Contractors
• Covering the whole value chain for trusted
  computing
• 7 industry partners, 3 SMEs, 13 universities and
  research institutes from 12 countries
• Links to standardisation
• Trusted Operating Systems (TCG)
• Trust enhanced processors (OMA)
• W3C, OASIS, IETF, CEN, ISO, ETSI
• Feedback by independent Expert Reference Group
• National security agencies (Germany, France, GB),
  
• Users from the public (City of Vienna), and
• the private sector (telecom provider)
• Cooperation with related initiatives in the EU,
  USA and Asia

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Open_TC Partners

• Commissariat à lénergie atomique, FR
• Ruhr Universität Bochum, D
• Technische Universität Dresden, D
• University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, UK
• IBM Research GmbH, CH
• Institute for Security and Open Methodologies,
  ESP
• AMD, D
• Portakal Teknoloji, Turkey
• Intek, RU
• Technical University of Sofia, BG
• Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, B
• COMNEON, D

• Technikon Forschungs- und Planungsges.m.b.H, A
• Infineon Technologies AG, D
• Hewlett Packard, UK
• Technische Universität Graz, A
• Technische Universität München, D
• SUSE Linux Products GmbH, D
• Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
• Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, D
• Tubitak, Turkey
• Politecnico di Torino, I
• Budapest University of Technology and Economics,
  HU

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Real-time Energy Management via Powerlines and
Internet
REMPLI
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REMPLI

• Create infrastructure for energy management
• Data acquisition in soft real-time
• Demand Side Management (customer side)
• Load balancing (producer side)
• Detection of leakage and theft
• Automatic billing
• Technological base
• Powerline communication (PLC) for remote access
  to energy meters
• Standard metering and application server protocols

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REMPLI
Long-term Benefits

• Improvement of
• Energy distribution
• Planning and local control
• Billing
• Leakage and fraud detection
• Establishment of IT infrastructure
• Connection to in-home networks
• Add-on services (e.g., surveillance, domotics)
• Improved customer relationship

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REMPLI
Consortium Overview
Technology providers
Energy suppliers, agencies
Toplofikacia Sofia (Sofia, BG) State Agency
(Sofia, BG) ADENE (Amadora, PT)
TCE (Mühlacker, DE) iAd (Nuremberg, DE)
Research-oriented partners
ICT (Vienna, AT) LORIA (Nancy, FR) ISEP-IPP
(Porto, PT) TU Sofia (Sofia, BG)
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DERLab
Two more slides will be added tomorrow
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DERLab
Two more slides will be added tomorrow
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Lessons learned

• Positive
• Contacts with new partners
• Access to technology and market
• Additional funding for research and
  implementation
• In case of success next participation are easier
• Negative
• Bureaucracy is increasing each time
• Funding schemes are changing, rules are slide and
  depend of individual interpretation
• Most successive ate groups with well known
  project coordinator (small and new groups have
  less chanses to succeed)

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Contact
Dr. Eng. Ivan Evgeniev Ivanov Advanced Control
Systems Laboratory Faculty of Automatics Technical
University of Sofia iei_at_tu-sofia.bg