To main­tain our tech­no­log­i­cal and sci­en­tif­ic progress, PHYSEC is involved in var­i­ous nation­al and inter­na­tion­al research projects.

On an inter­na­tion­al lev­el, we are con­duct­ing research togeth­er with Prince­ton Uni­ver­si­ty, Har­vard Uni­ver­si­ty and Ruhr Uni­ver­si­ty Bochum in the joint project ‘Vir­tu­al Proof of Real­i­ty for Nuclear War­head Dis­ar­ma­ment Sce­nar­ios’, by which a mod­ern tech­nol­o­gy for secur­ing the integri­ty of a phys­i­cal envi­ron­ment is devel­oped. By employ­ing this tech­nol­o­gy, it is pos­si­ble to super­vise and ver­i­fy the nuclear dis­ar­ma­ment process of States with­out rely­ing on a trust­wor­thy third par­ty. The aim is to con­firm the state­ment that a nuclear weapon remains in place and has not been moved or replaced with­out fur­ther infor­ma­tion about the nature of the weapon being dis­closed. You can find addi­tion­al infor­ma­tion about this project here.

Secure­Fog: Pro­tect­ing ser­vices and data on the Inter­net of Things (BMBF)

The research project Secure­Fog is fund­ed by the Ger­man Fed­er­al Min­istry of Edu­ca­tion and Research (BMBF) and is a joint project between azeti Net­works AG, Tech­nis­che Uni­ver­sität Berlin, Freie Uni­ver­sität Berlin and PHYSEC GmbH. In order to avoid bot­tle­necks in the trans­fer of data via data cen­ters and to improve the effi­cien­cy of data pro­cess­ing, we are work­ing on the devel­op­ment of a secure fog lay­er, the bound­ary between end devices and the cloud, as part of this project. We want to enable seam­less data exchange inde­pen­dent of data cen­ters and pro­vide a secure, effi­cient and flex­i­ble plat­form for the Inter­net of Things. For more infor­ma­tion, see here.

PROPHYLAXE: Pro­vid­ing Phys­i­cal-Lay­er Secu­ri­ty for the Inter­net of Things (BMBF)

The research project’ PROPHYLAXE’, in which we were an active part­ner, dealt with effi­cient key man­age­ment for more secu­ri­ty on the Inter­net of Things. In asso­ci­a­tion with Robert Bosch GmbH, ESCRYPT GmbH, Ruhr-Uni­ver­si­ty Bochum, of the Tech­nis­che Uni­ver­sität Dres­den and Tech­nis­che Uni­ver­sität Kaiser­slautern we have devel­oped new meth­ods for the encryp­tion of data dur­ing radio trans­mis­sion and based on this a con­cept for the key estab­lish­ment for secure, wire­less trans­mis­sion between sen­sors in the IoT. This means that man­u­al key entry is no longer nec­es­sary and keys can be exchanged at short inter­vals. Fields of appli­ca­tion are home and build­ing automa­tion, telemed­i­cine or man­u­fac­tur­ing automa­tion. Learn here more about it.