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Selected projects, carried out in close cooperation with our partners, illustrate our activities and expertise.
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ADiWa
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Within the “Allianz digitaler Warenfluss” (Alliance Digital Flow of Goods, ADiWa) project the Fraunhofer-Institute SIT develops methods and tools to secure dynamic business processes. Goal of ADiWa is to select, compose, control and even create complex, dynamic business processes with refined information from the real world by utilizing for example RFID technology."
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AMIGO
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Fifteen of Europe’s leading companies and research establishments in mobile and home networking, software development, consumer electronics and domestic appliances have joined together in Amigo – an integrated project that will realize the full potential of home networking to improve people’s lives.
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ArchiSoft
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The ArchiSoft software ensures that electronic signatures remain provable for a long time. Electronic documents can thus meet the same legal archiving obligations that are valid for physical documents and have to be observed for example by the banking sector, the public health system or other public authorities.
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BlackBerry
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The security of IT systems used for business purposes is a central topic where economic aspects are concerned. Quintessential for reaching a higher degree of IT Security is the awareness for IT risks, a holistic point of view and a security assessment of the assigned IT systems by developer-independent testers. Based on its longstanding experience in the IT Security sector the Fraunhofer Institute SIT has developed a methodology for IT Security assessments that covers different evaluation depths, considers the entire solution and is applied to projects reviewed at the Fraunhofer SIT IT Security Test Laboratory.
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CC-PKI
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A multitude of workflows undergo acceleration and refinement processes due to constant developments in the information technology. Digital identity is an important tool within this context because it helps to save costs, automatise processes and increase security. The Fraunhofer-Competence Center Public Key Infrastructures (CC-PKI) is establishing a basis for further developing this potential on behalf of the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft. Fraunhofer Institute SIT is responsible for designing, establishing and operating the Public Key Infrastructure for all of Fraunhofer's employees. The smart chip identity, based on a chip card, reduces costs and offers a big variety of possible uses - from the electronic holiday card to laptop protection.
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CI2RCO
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By now, the protection of critical information infrastructares (CIIP) has reached a dimension that goes beyond the national level, requiring the concerted action of all countries on a European level. This has induced the European Commission in March 2005 to fund the project CI2RCO (Critical Information infrastructure Research Co-ordination, http://www.ci2rco.org). This project, lead by the Fraunhofer Institute SIT, for the first time bundled the different national research endeavours in the area of critical information infrastructure on the European level.
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D-Grid
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GRID Technology facilitates that scientists in Germany can use a super computer in the USA. The cross-linking and the dynamic nature of such cooperation of different organisations need certain security measures. Therefore Fraunhofer SIT develops methods for granting access rights in GRID networks.
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E2ME
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The survey E2ME - e-mail push services and end-to-end security solutions for data exchange for mobile devices - examined in an in-depth analysis the specific security functionalities of available e-mail and data push services. Within the survey a classification of the available methods was developed and a security analysis performed. This analysis was mainly concerned with the security properties of the respective infrastructures, the protocols, and the end user devices.
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EVITA
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EVITA is a project co-funded by the European Commission. Its objective is to design, verify, and prototype an architecture for automotive on-board networks where security-relevant components are protected against tampering and sensitive data are protected against compromise. Thus, EVITA will provide a basis for the secure deployment of electronic safety aids based on vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication.
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Facilityboss
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To survive in a world full of competition, companies must be able to adapt to changing requirements at an ever increasing rate. If a company wishes to restructure one of its departments, for example, employees need to relocate, technicians must rebuild rooms and change lock authorizations and administrators need to adapt access authorization for the company network. With all this, work stoppages and interruptions must be avoided to the greatest degree possible. Traditional architecture sees the space requirement as an urgent problem and offers hardly any technical support with the smooth organization of such complex procedures.
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HYDRA
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The HYDRA project aims to research, develop, and validate middleware for networked embedded systems thereby allowing the development of cost-effective, high-performance ambient intelligence applications for heterogeneous physical devices.
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I2BN
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The Internet offers many interactive services. Persons with physical impairments or disabilities, however, often may not be able to use these services. In the I2BN project Fraunhofer SIT is working on an Internet filter for the barrier-free access to such interactive services. This filter can be adapted to fit the individual needs. Public administrations have to ensure that their Internet offers meet the legal obligations laid out in the equality law, thus the offers have to be disabled-accessible. The project's results will be evaluated based on e-government applications. The functions developed in this project can usually be applied to all types of Internet offers.
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ImageMark
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ImageMark is a watermarking solution that provides copyright protection for digital and analog images. ImageMark embeds additional information as a digital watermark into pictures in an invisible way while the embedded watermark does not degrade the perceived quality. This works for natural images as well as computer generated graphics. The digital watermark embedded by ImageMark can survive not only compression and digital image processing, but also digital-analog-digital conversion, e.g. print and scan. Hence it can provide copyright protection and trace unauthorized copies for both digital and analog pictures.
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Intelcities
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Within the Intelcities project SIT is working with its partners on developing secure, web-based value-added services for using digital geo-data over the Internet. City planners will be able to access and process data from any system they may be using. This will allow technical offices to work with the most recent data despite physical separation. Coordinating building developments will become easier and safer. Investors, planning committees and citizens will be able to access decision-relevant information directly.
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ITSMIG-Netzwerk
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IT-Security made in Germany has a good reputation. Fraunhofer SIT organises the activities of the network "IT Security made in Germany" and produces its internet site with the goal of bundling German export acitivities in the IT security area and supporting foreign enterprises in their search for German partners. The initiative's intention is to support teh cooperation between German IT security solution suppliers and their partners in foreign countries. It is a network of manufacturers, system integrators, service providers, research institutes, and public services.
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J-Sec
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J-SEC is a development from SIT's strategic research to protect against digital theft from PDAs. If the equipment is lost, the data stored remains protected. What is unique is that J-SEC works on all operating systems (platform independent) and that it permits a team-oriented encryption. This allows different persons to use the same pocket computer, but each user can access only his own data or data specifically intended for him.
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KARMASYS
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KARMASYS / SMARTMON, developed at Fraunhofer Institut SIT as a prototype, is a monitor and test system for chipcards and chipcard service systems.
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KompEC
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The Competence Centre for Electronic Commerce (KompEC Bonn / Rhein-Sieg, http://www.kompec.de) is one of 24 centres in Germany which are funded by the Federal Ministry for Economy and Technology's initiative INFO-2000. These centres are involved in developing a communication approach designed to ensure the regular exchange of information and to reduce repeated completion of work.
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MAMS
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In the MAMS (Multi-Access, Modular-Services) project a secure, service-oriented architecture (SOA) is developed by Fraunhofer SIT and its partners. The goal of the MAMS Framework is to enable enterprises without IT experts to create and deploy services for their customers in a simple and fast manner. The services can be created on and started from a service creation work bench which can be used intuitively. Fraunhofer SIT's contributions to the MAMS project include the development of concepts for different types of security-critical areas.
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MAMSplus
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In the project MAMSplus (Multi-Access, Modular Services) a secure, service-oriented architecture (SOA) will be developed by the Fraunhofer SIT and its partners. MAMSplus builds on the results of the pilot project MAMS, but with health care (prevention and rehabilitation), and business communications as new application areas. The goal of the MAMS Frameworks is to enable enterprises without IT experts to create and deploy services for their customers in a simple and fast manner. The services can be created and started on a service creation work bench which can be used intuitively. In MAMSplus, Fraunhofer SIT is responsible for determining the safety requirements in the development of basic services for the new fields of application, and a safety test of parts of the MAMS platform.
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MIDMAY
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MIDMAY's goal is to let mobile devices evolve into a daily tool for personal management purposes and the distribution of information. The project focuses on the conditions of efficient mobile working environments and creating concepts for the user friendly management of personal knowledge. A suitable security architecture has been integrated to protect the accessible data and its originating network.
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MOBILE
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Apart from telephoning, Internet Dial-In or electronic payment contents and mobile services, which are custom-made related to time, place, context regarding to the user, have good chances to become mass applications . Security needs both of the service provider and the customers must be likewise considered thereby as well as personal desires in the service selection. In this area the project "MOBILE – secure services for the mobile citizens" developed a platform for multilateral secure, dynamic of place, time and person dependent services.
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MobileSitter
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The MobileSitter software developed at the Fraunhofer Insitute for Secure Information Technology facilitates the comfortable and secure administration of secret codes such as passwords, PINs or TANs on mobile phones or PDAs. An innovative, patented procedure that makes it exceptionally hard for hackers to crack encodings.
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NanoDataCenters
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Historically, content distribution in the Internet has relied on a client-server model. This model has shaped all Internet legacy applications such as the web, electronic mail messaging, and FTP. For the past ten years, we have seen content distribution solutions that have evolved from classical client-server models, through distributed caching, to Content Distribution Networks (CDNs), and more recently peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. NaDa (Nanodatacenters) is the next step in data hosting and in the content distribution paradigm. By enabling a distributed hosting edge infrastructure, NaDa can enable the next generation of interactive services and applications to flourish, complementing existing data centres and reaching a massive number of users in a much more efficient manner.
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ORKA
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Access to resources in business processes are currently distributed manually. Thus, user rights are not synchronized with business processes and need to be adjusted subsequently. This is expensive and prohibits an effective access control. The ORKA project designs and implements an authorisation architecture that connects business processes models with rights management.
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MP3-Onlineshops Reference Projects
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Watermarking technology for audio files helps enterprizes to identify copyright violators. Fraunhofer SIT has integrated such a watermarking system in 2006 in the online shop of akuma.de. When a user downloads a file, the Fraunhofer software embeds an individual watermark without a perceivable loss of quality.
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PasswordSitter
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The PasswordSitter provides secure passwords and safeguards secret codes without storing them. This is possible due to a process that not only meets the highest security requirements but is also very easy to use.
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porTiVity
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People use mobile phones more actively than TV or radio. To make the mobile TV of the future more attractive to the viewer, the designers of TV programmes want to offer interactive content by complementing existing material with further information. To do so TV stations need to give their TV material (footage) to external service providers, which are able to embed the information into the media. To protect programmes from being released prematurely via Internet it needs a special protection which the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology developed. The protection consists of a robust video watermark, which provides permanent watermarks without prohibiting further media complementation.
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RFID Study 2007
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Together with the Institute of Microelectronic Systems (MES), Darmstadt University of Technology, and the Technologie-Zentrum Informatik (TZI), University of Bremen, the Fraunhofer-Institute for Secure Information Technology (SIT) developed a study investigating the secure use of RFID systems in commerce and the pharmaceutical and automotive industries.
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SBSS
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The SBSS project studied the security aspects of specific integrated wireless and cellular access network scenarios. The study investigated the security of heterogeneous access networks in overlay situations and focused on the finding and design of usage scenarios applicable to standardised as well as not yet implemented technologies.
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secureitnrw
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Project for the technicological support of the North-Rine Westphalia initiative "secure-it.nrw.2005". With this initiative the Federal State of North-Rhine Westphalia (NRW) wants to promote IT security in electronic business traffic. Specific focus will be on small and medium sized companies, but also on the public administration, with the objective to achieve more acceptance of e-business transactions and to increase the users' trust into the security of information technology.
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Secure mobile VoIP
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Fraunhofer Institute SIT addresses various aspects of Voice over IP security and the security of mobile systems. The prototype J2ME application “Secure mobile VoIP”, which can be used on current mobile phones, demonstrates the use of encryption technology to protect mobile VoIP conversations.
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Serenity
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The aim of SERENITY is to enhance the security and dependability for Ambient Intelligence (AmI) ecosystems by providing a framework to support the automated integration, configuration, monitoring and adaptation of security and dependability mechanisms. It will provide the policy-driven deployment of securty mechanisms in such heterogeneous, large scale and nomadic systems, where computing nodes will be omnipresent and communication infrastructures will be assembled dynamically .
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SHOM
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The project SHOM investigates security mechanisms for heterogeneous access networks in overlay situations suitable for handoffs. The focus of SHOM is on the findings, the design and the validation of a suitable and handoff-supporting security architecture for 3G and WLAN.
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SicAri
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The increasing mobility of enterprizes facilitates more efticiency but also brings about a number of security risks, because employees for example can easily lose information via laptop or mobile phone. In the SicAri project Fraunhofer SIT develeops a platform for secure mobile internet usage, which automatically adjusts rights and settings to the employees current situation. Thereby the platform increases enterprize security and relieves employee. Additionally Fraunhofer SIT develops a number of security tools.
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SKOUT
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In the SKOUT project Fraunhofer SIT and its partners develop services for local communities, which allow for legally binding communication between local administration, citizens and enterprises. To guarantee the integrity of information and facilitate the secure authentification of communication partners, Fraunhofer SIT integrated the legally recognized electronic signature into the service.
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SPIT
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VoIP is significantly growing in its importance for the daily life. It expected that the SPAM phenomenon known form the E-Mail domain could spread also this area. This project aims at a better understanding of this topic by evaluating existing counter measures.
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SWIFT
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The EU-FP7 SWIFT project aims to build a cross-layer Identity Management (IdM) framework. For the user, it will provide multiple personae, identity-based privacy accross all layers and a data model for new, dynamic business. SWIFT will optimise and integrate various challenges in IdM while accounting for requirements of users, services, and network operators.
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TOPCARE
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Implementation of a platform for a telematics-supported homecare in cooperation with different health care entities.
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TransiDoc
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Signed data cannot be changed if electronic signatures are to be kept valid. But when data has to be exchanged across systems, or these systems have to migrate and therefore data formats are altered, such changes inevitably occur. Therefore the TransiDoc project aims at developing procedures to convert signed documents in a way which preserves their evidentiary weight and other legally essential characteristics (legally secure transformations).
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Trusted Computing
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Placing trust into computing platforms is becoming ever more important for the execution of transactions. Trusted Computing and the standards defined by the Trusted Computing Group offer an approach for establishing such trust and for mediating between the involved parties. Security and the protection of privacy are relevant aspects defining a big area in this research.
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VoIP Signatures
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A unique method for the digital signing of Voice over IP communication was developed in the self funded research project VoIPS. The signature is applied during the conversation and does not interfere with the quality of the call. The VoIP Signature (VoIPS) technology introduces non-repudiation into calls as well as continuous authentication of callers, and allows to enter into binding contracts by phone without having an actual witness present.
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Watermarking Container
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The container technology developed at Fraunhofer SIT is an efficient solution for individually marking large amounts of media data (transactional watermarking). This is used for example by online shops to mark downloaded data with information about the purchase or the buyer.
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