Wave Systems Corp. (fka WAVXQ)

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Wavedreamer: "G&D" and "Trusted-Logic"

Both products provide a set of "container" software that are built against the Global Platform TEE (Trusted Execution Environment)

What I would expect to see is a "common API" - within the respective Trusted Logic "Secure Foundatio" and G&D "Mobicore" trusted software containers – to accommodate Waves Transaction Engine and for interoperability reasons. It will be interesting to see how ARM and/or Global Platform will be handling this….

Note that the "G&D MobiCore" document below is almost one year old...


Trusted Logic "Secure Foundation"

http://blog.wave.com/burke/mobile-world-congress-opens-window-to-trusted-security-on-any-device/

Date: March 8, 2012

Mobile OSs do offer a level of protection, but not nearly what is required for this and other secure applications running on the mobile device. To that end, one can utilize the secure environment offered by Trusted Logic’s Trusted Foundations, which implements what is known as a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE). When used in conjunction with the TrustZone capabilities of an ARM processor, Trusted Foundations software provides a TEE which is only accessible to the ‘normal’ OS via standard TEE APIs defined by Global Platform.



G&D "MobiCore"

http://www.primelife.eu/images/stories/deliverables/d6.2.2-secure_mobile_device_demonstrator-public.pdf

Date: May 20, 2011

Both, the presented Secure µSD Card as well as the TEE by the name of MobiCore, which is currently being brought forward by Giesecke & Devrient, can be expected to be compliant to Global Platform standards and eligible for security certification. This standard has been promoted strongly by G&D throughout the PrimeLife project and first interfaces have been standardized during the course of PrimeLife

For “plug-and-play” solutions to privacy and identity management, the Secure µSD card can be used ad hoc and hence provides an important bridge technology to introduce the concept to the market place whilst TEE technologies are still under development. Most existing mobile handsets have SD card slots and could leverage the concepts developed in PrimeLife at short notice.

Overall, MobiCore security promotes the principle of isolation, as established in the PrimeLife demonstrator, even further. Instead of encapsulating security critical processes in extra hardware components such as, e.g.., the Secure µSD card, the main processor of the mobile device is enhanced by an additional secure execution mode – the TrustZone® Secure World.

The TrustZone® Secure World resembles the concept of the “Private World” of the PrimeLife demonstrator. MobiCore is the secure operating system and is responsible for program execution in the Secure World. This will work similar to the manner in which the Secure µSD Card provided as secure execution ground for the “Privacy” application. By being built into the core chip of the mobile device, MobiCore will realize the chance to provide “Private Worlds” on mobile devices in a very cost efficient way by a combination of the ARM® TrustZone hardware and the MobiCore software.