The disclosed technology provides for establishment of a secure tunnel with implicit device identification. The implicit device identification can be provided during establishment of a secure tunnel with a server by performing a mutual authentication with the server using a device-specific private key of the device. The device-specific private key may be provisioned during manufacturing of the device and stored by a secure hardware component of the device. Establishing the secure tunnel using implicit device identification can be helpful for operations in which a server is configured to only establish secure communications with one or more particular types of device, and can be performed without the use additional device identification communications.