System and method for secure manufacturing of articles

Abstract

The claimed subject matter discloses system for securing a process of manufacturing an article, comprising a facility security node located in a manufacturing facility where the article is manufactured, a security server located remotely from the manufacturing facility, said security server communicates with the facility security node and comprises a key generation module configured to generate a certificate authority (CA) private key in a split manner, one share of the CA private key is stored at the security server and another share of the CA private key is stored at the manufacturing facility. The server also comprises a server Multi-Party Computation (MPC) module configured to perform an MPC process with an article MPC module stored at the article, the output of the MPC process is signing the certificate without reconstructing the entire CA private key.

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