European Multilaterally Secure Computing Base (EMSCB) aims at developing a trustworthy computing platform with open standards that solves many security problems of conventional platforms.In the sense of multilateral security, the EMSCB platform allows the enforcement of security policies of different parties, i.e., end-users as well as industry. Consequently, the platform enables the realisation of various innovative business models, particularly in the area of Digital Rights Management, while averting the potential risks of Trusted Computing platforms concerning privacy issues.

The source code of the EMSCB platform will be published under an open source license.

The platform deploys:

• hardware functionalities provided by Trusted Computing, 
• a security kernel based on a microkernel  and
• an efficient migration of existing operating systems

As an implementation of the EMSCB security architecture, Turaya is providing strong isolation and multilaterally secure policy enforcement of legacy applications. Turaya is based on the PERSEUS Security Framework and on the L4-Mikrokernel.

Developed Demonstrators so far:

• Turaya.Crypt: a device encryption system providing user-transparent encryption of commonly used storage devices such as hard-disks and USB memory sticks
• Turaya.VPN: a secure communication client which is fully transparent to the user. The VPN client is based on IPSec and interoperable with common VPN servers
• Turaya.fairDRM: a secure content viewer, that considers the requirements of content providers as well as the security and privacy related requirements of the user 

Currently Sirrix AG in cooperation with SAP develops a Demonstrator of an ERM-System (Enterprise Rights Management) to enforce access policies in a distributed net.

 To the EMSCB Website