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The trust anchor for mechanical engineering and the manufacturing industry

Trustpoint supports you in the management of digital certificates in industrial environments.

All the tools you need to manage digital identities in industrial environments.

Trustpoint helps you to implement certificate-based security mechanisms in your environment. As a web-based application with standardized interfaces and high user-friendliness.

For industrial users

Different security levels

Comprehensive Certificate Lifecycle Management (CLM)

Support for short-lived certificates

Standardized interfaces (CMP, EST, REST)

Low hardware requirements

Available as a Docker container

Python Django web application

Trustpoint is continuously improved and further developed.

Trustpoint’s ease of use stands above all technical possibilities for us. Our goal is to make PKI and digital identities as easy to use as possible.

Beta Release
10/2024

First Release
03/2025

Second Release
09/2025

The Trustpoint research project has been funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research since September 2023. The aim of the project is to develop an open source solution that ensures the secure provision of digital certificates in industrial networks and their management throughout their entire life cycle. Trustpoint helps companies to verify chains of trust. This makes it easier and better to secure machines and their components in factories.

Every second Thursday of the month, the “Digitale Sprechstunde” [German] takes place, in which we provide information about applications relating to digital certificates.

The Trustpoint development team consists of medium-sized companies (achelos, asvin, Keyfactor) with expertise in the field of security as well as research institutes and universities (Campus Schwarzwald, Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences).

The practical relevance to the user is ensured by the close exchange with our associated partners ARBURG, Belden Inc, HOMAG, Phoenix Contact, Schmalz, Siemens and Diebold Nixdorf.

Try Trustpoint!

Trustpoint is based on Python Django and can be up and running in just a few minutes. To make the installation even easier, we provide you with a Docker container.

Onboarding and CLM

Trustpoint maps the complete lifecycle of a component in your infrastructure. Options are available for user-driven onboarding and zero-touch onboarding, which help to initially integrate a component into a network. After successful onboarding, application certificates (e.g. for OPC UA or MQTT) can be issued to devices and managed.

Protocols and PKI

With Trustpoint you can either operate an Issuing CA locally in Trustpoint or in a Remote Issuing CA (so-called Registration Authority – RA). Standardized protocols such as Certificate Management Protocol (CMP) or Enrollment over Secure Transport (EST) are available for both the Remote Issuing CA and the component.

Dr. Claudia Priesterjahn | achelos
Christian Schwinne | Hochschule Hamm-Lippstadt
Alexander Harig | Campus Schwarzwald
Andreas Philipp | Keyfactor
Rohit Bohara | asvin
Prof. Jan Pelzl | Hochschule Hamm-Lippstadt
Omkar Joglekar | asvin
Dominik Isaak | achelos
Florian Handke | Campus Schwarzwald

Centrum für Digitalisierung, Führung und Nachhaltigkeit Schwarzwald gGmbH

Herzog-Eberhard-Str. 56, 72250 Freudenstadt

trustpoint[at]campus-schwarzwald.de