Microsoft Research has released a paper on their new Robust IoT platform:
RIoT – A Foundation for Trust in the Internet of Things
Paul England, Andrey Marochko, Dennis Mattoon, Stefan Thom, and David Wooten
21 April 2016
MSR-TR-2016-18
RIoT (Robust Internet-of-Things) is an architecture for providing foundational trust services to computing devices. The trust services include device identity, sealing, attestation, and data integrity. The term “Robust” is used because the minimal trusted computing base is tiny, and because RIoT capabilities can remotely re-establish trust in devices that have been compromised by malware. The term IoT is used because these services can be provided at low cost on even the tiniest of devices.
http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=264838
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