The Galileo Key Management Facilities
N.P. Shave, M. de Potter, Anita Saranga Coen · 2008
Galileo has been designed with a range of security features, resilience against deliberate or inadvertent interference or spoofing, and immunity to earth-bound disasters. With its Commercial Service (CS), Safety of Life (SoL) service and Public Regulated Service (PRS) functions, Galileo will provide Europe with state-of-theart protected and resilient navigation services to a wide range of users. Additionally, the Open Service (OS) benefits from the overall security considerations of the Galileo mission and the implementation at the Key Management Facilities (KMF) in support of the mission. Galileo’s services are resistant to unauthorised modification and will allow their use for applications such as prisoner tagging, monitoring systems for sensitive areas such as large commercial harbours, and the tracking of dangerous or valuable goods as is necessary for border control. Galileo’s security features are enabled by the Galileo KMFs which are comprised of three separate systems. This paper firstly presents an Overview of Galileo KMFs with a description of their common and specific features. This highlights the separation of off-line from on-line functions of the KMF. This is followed by a high level discussion of the Galileo Security Features. Some initial presentation of the Example Applications of Galileo is then provided. Finally a summary of the project’s Current Status and Design and Development Approach is presented.