Application of trusted computing in automation to prevent product piracy

  • Authors:
  • Nora Lieberknecht

  • Affiliations:
  • Research Center for Information Technology, Embedded Systems and Sensors Engineering, Karlsruhe, Germany

  • Venue:
  • TRUST'10 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Trust and trustworthy computing
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Product piracy has become a serious threat for automation and mechanical engineering in recent years. Therefore effective protection measures are desperately needed. Especially the software has to be protected since it determines the machine's functionality and without software the machine (and the imitations) cannot work. Thereby it has to be prevented that software can be copied from one machine to another and that it can be manipulated in order to activate additional machine functionalities. Moreover the unauthorized replacement of software-equipped machine components must be prohibited. This can be achieved by applying Trusted Computing and TPMs to this new field of application.