Projects

The projects on this page all either use Enzian as a platform or investigate areas that were brought to our attention when building the platform.

Trustworthy Board Management Controllers

Most modern computing platforms are so complex that they need a separate embedded system to manage them and Enzian is no exception. These systems are referred to as (Base-)Board Management Controllers or BMCs. BMCs handle power and clock distribution and sequencing, firmware for other components on the board, and usually offer remote management capabilities (e.g. console access and firmware updates). This makes them the root of trust in such systems. Although BMCs have absolute power over modern computing platforms they are not engineered in the rigorous way that warrants the implicit trust that we put in them. In the Trustworthy BMC project we investigate how to design the software stack for BMCs from the ground up with trustworthiness as the principle goal.