System Transparency is a free and open source software project that aims to provide the components necessary to build, operate and verify transparent systems. A system is transparent if there exists a globally discoverable and verifiable link between its hardware, source code and runtime behavior.

Conceptually a transparent system requires the following:

• verified boot,
• measured boot,
• reproducible builds,
• transparency logging with global consistency, and
• remote attestation.

The specific technologies that the System Transparency project makes use of (or is planning to use) are coreboot, UEFI Secure Boot, TCG TPM 2.0, AMD SEV-SNP, Debian reproducible builds and Sigsum.