Towards an Asset Administration Shell Integrity Verification Scheme.

Integrity as one property of trustworthiness is an important aspect for the adoption of the Asset Administration Shell (AAS) as a data exchange format and source for data driven services. Until now, the AAS offers an access control solution as a preventive integrity measure. Nevertheless, preventive methods lack in detecting integrity violations due to accidental or malicious modifications from access permitted endpoints. This work in progress paper proposes a concept to complement the access control with a detective integrity measure. By signing submodels of the AAS, business partners along the life cycle can verify the integrity of the data inside the AAS. Therefore, a Certificates Submodel and a Signature Submodel are proposed in the concept to enable a flexible and interoperable integrity verification. In future work, the concept will be implemented and evaluated.