Thomas Feller sheds some light on trust anchor architectures fortrustworthy reconfigurable
systems. He is presenting novel concepts enhancing the security capabilities of reconfigurable
hardware.Almost invisible to the user many computer systems are embedded into everyday
artifacts such as cars ATMs and pacemakers. The significant growth of this market segment
within the recent years enforced a rethinking with respect to the security properties and the
trustworthiness of these systems. The trustworthiness of a system in general equates to the
integrity of its system components. Hardware-based trust anchors provide measures to compare
the systemconfiguration to reference measurements. Reconfigurable architectures represent a
special case in this regard as in addition to the software implementation the underlying
hardware architecture may be exchanged even during runtime.
