Continuum of Trust: Increased Path Agility and Trustworthy Device and Service Provisioning

Informazioni relative al progetto

CASTOR

ID dell’accordo di sovvenzione: 101167904

DOI

10.3030/101167904

Data della firma CE 6 Luglio 2024

Data di avvio 1 Ottobre 2024

Data di completamento 30 Settembre 2027

Finanziato da

• Civil Security for Society

Costo totale

€ 6 835 705,00

Contributo UE

€ 5 203 611,25

Coordinato da

GIOUMPITEK MELETI SCHEDIASMOS YLOPOIISI KAI POLISI ERGON PLIROFORIKIS ETAIREIA PERIORISMENIS EFTHYNIS
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Risultati finali

Documents, reports (6)

Architectural Specification of Dynamic Enforcement of Trust- /Network-Aware Path Establishments

Documentation of CASTOR Policy Enforcement mechanism and detailed architecture intra-/inter-domain orchestration of trust- and network-aware path requirements.

Dissemination, Communication, Standardization and Exploitation Activities – Initial Version

Documentation on the dissemination, communication, clustering, standardization, and exploitation activities. Highlighting standardization and open-source specification implementation contributions.

Architectural Specification of CASTOR Continuum-Wide Trust Assessment Framework

Report on the progress of T4.1-T4.4 on blueprinting the end-to-end Trusted path Establishment mechanisms. Early design of the CASTOR VCs based on the W3C data structures.

Operational Landscape, Requirements and Reference Architecture - Initial Version

Documentation of CASTOR requirements (T2.1); 1st version of the Reference Architecture (T2.2); Classification and analysis of the threat landscape (T2.3); Analysis of the type of secure elements existing for the heterogeneous type of continuum elements (from the far-edge to the edge and to the routing plane) (T2.5)

Plan for Dissemination and Exploitation including Communication Activities

Documentation of the dissemination, exploitation & communication activities plan.

Conceptual Architecture of CASTOR Trusted Computing Base & Composable Attestation Model Specification

Report on the progress of T3.1-T3.4 on the archetype design of CASTOR Trusted Computing Base equipped with appropriate TEE Device Interfaces and all envisioned internal building blocks for enabling the trusted I/O virtualization and secure message exchange with any type of underlying secure element; Design of the composable attestation schemes, crypto primitives for enabling the secure management of distributed trust anchors & the tracing methodology.

Other (2)

Trusted Path Establishment Building Blocks, Optimization Engine & Crypto Structures for Trusted Data Sharing

Early release of the CASTOR Trusted Path Establishment mechanisms (including the initial definition of the FAD extensions) as well as the mechanisms for continuous authentication and authorization for trusted data sharing and recording of device trustworthiness levels on the Blockchain.

Device-Level & Continuum-Wide Trust Extensions and Security Controls (First Release)

Early release of CASTOR TDISP enhanced design alongside with the first version of the attestation enablers; First version of the CASTOR Runtime Tracer, Crypto Primitives (Monotonic Counter and Delegatable Order-Revealing Encryption), and centralized Trust Manager for governing the continuous monitoring (in a secure way) of all trustworthiness evidence (security claims) produced by the distributed secure elements

Pubblicazioni

Peer reviewed articles (2)

Cross-domain telemetry architecture: dynamic observability in the computing continuum

Autori: José Manuel Bernabé Murcia, Alejandro Molina Zarca, Stefano Braghin, Antonio Skármeta
Pubblicato in: Computing, Numero 108, 2026, ISSN 0010-485X
Editore: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/S00607-026-01660-X

Comparative Performance Analysis of Lightweight Cryptographic Algorithms on Resource-Constrained IoT Platforms

Autori: Tiberius-George Sorescu, Vlad-Mihai Chiriac, Mario-Alexandru Stoica, Ciprian-Romeo Comsa, Iustin-Gabriel Soroaga, Alexandru Contac
Pubblicato in: Sensors, Numero 25, 2025, ISSN 1424-8220
Editore: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/S25185887

Book chapters (2)

Attribute-Based Key Exchange with Optimal Efficiency

Autori: Liqun Chen, Long Meng, Mark Manulis, Yangguang Tian, Yinghui Zhang
Pubblicato in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Cryptology and Network Security, 2026
Editore: Springer Nature Singapore
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-95-4434-9_15

A Staged Control Method for Router Configuration and Explicit Path Enforcement Using PCE and Flex-Algo.

Autori: Martínez Sánchez, P., & Skarmeta Gómez, A. (2026)
Pubblicato in: A Staged Control Method for Router Configuration and Explicit Path Enforcement Using PCE and Flex-Algo.
Editore: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.20038445

Conference proceedings (6)

An Improved Vector Commitment Construction with Applications to Signatures

Autori: Yalan Wang, Bryan Kumara, Harsh Kasyap, Liqun Chen, Sumanta Sarkar, Christopher J.P. Newton, Carsten Maple, Ugur Ilker Atmaca
Pubblicato in: 2025 IEEE 24th International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom), 2026
Editore: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/TRUSTCOM66490.2025.00190

A PUF-based Root-of-Trust for resource-constrained IoT devices

Autori: Sassalou, E. N., Kazazis, S., Vasileiadis, S., Karas, D., Giannetsos, T., Tsintzos, S., Protogerou, G., & Varvitsiotis, N.
Editore: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.18551856

FABS: Fast Attribute-Based Signatures

Autori: Liqun Chen, Long Meng, Yalan Wang, Nada El Kassem, Christopher JP Newton, Yangguang Tian, Jodie Knapp, Constantin Catalin Dragan, Daniel Gardham, Mark Manuli
Editore: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.18712762

Actions Speak Louder Than Words: Evidence-Based Trust Level Evaluation in Multi-Agent Systems

Autori: Nikolaos Fotos; Koffi Ismael Ouattara; Dimitrios S. Karas; Ioannis Krontiris; Weizhi Meng; Thanassis Giannetsos
Editore: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.18937518

Risk Analysis for V2X Scenarios

Autori: Iulius-Stefan Ambros, Roxana-Emanuela Ambrozie, Vlad Mihai Chiriac, Tiberius George Sorescu, Tudor-Gabriel Ghețău, Ciprian-Romeo Comşa
Pubblicato in: 2025 International Symposium on Signals, Circuits and Systems (ISSCS), 2025
Editore: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ISSCS66034.2025.11105612

Trust or Bust: Reinforcing Trust-Aware Path Establishment with Implicit Attestation Capabilities

Autori: Nikolaos Fotos; Stefanos Vasileiadis; Thanassis Giannetsos
Editore: IEEE
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.18936127