• "First and foremost, there is no proper excuse for continued use of a broken cryptographic primitive (MD5) when sufficiently strong alternatives are readily available, for example SHA-2. Secondly, there is no substitute for security awareness." ... "Advice from experts should be taken seriously and early in the process. In this case, MD5 should have been phased out soon after 2004."

    Alexander Sotirov, Marc Stevens, Jacob Appelbaum, Arjen Lenstra, David Molnar, Dag Arne Osvik, Benne de Wegerr, "MD5 considered harmful today - Creating a rogue CA certificate", December 2008
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  • “It's not good enough to have a system where everyone (using the system) must be trusted, it must also be made robust against insiders!”

    Robert Morris, former Chief Scientist of the US National Security Agency (NSA), National Computer Security Center, "Crypto '95 invited talks by R. Morris and A. Shamir", 1995

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  • “Given today’s common hardware and software architectural paradigms, operating systems security is a major primitive for secure systems – you will not succeed without it. This area is so important that it needs all the emphasis it can get. It is the current ‘black hole’ of security.”

    Brian Snow, Former Technical Director of the US National Security Agency (NSA), "We need assurance!", 1999-2008

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Full Title: Cyberspace Policy Review - Assuring a Trusted and Resilient Information and Communications Infrastructure
Organisation:

The White House Executive Office of the President
Synaptic:
  1. Synaptic Labs has been an active participant in USA Federal initiatives that have been developing a framework on game-changing technologies as called for in point 9 of the Cyberspace Policy Review's near term action plan. Read more...
  2. Synaptic Lab' global identity management (IdM) and cryptographic key management (CKM) proposal addresses point 10 in the Cyberspace Policy Review's near term action plan by offering a new game-changing identity management vision that addresses privacy and civil liberty interests within an international context.
About document:

The U.S. President directed a 60-day, comprehensive, “clean-slate” review to assess U.S. policies and structures for cybersecurity. Cybersecurity policy includes strategy, policy, and standards regarding the security of and operations in cyberspace, and encompasses the full range of threat reduction, vulnerability reduction, deterrence, international engagement, incident response, resiliency, and recovery policies and activities, including computer network operations, information assurance, law enforcement, diplomacy, military, and intelligence missions as they relate to the security and stability of the global information and communications infrastructure.
Key message

"NEAR TERM ACTION PLAN

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9. In collaboration with other EOP entities, develop a framework for research and development strategies that focus on game-changing technologies that have the potential to enhance the security, reliability, resilience, and trustworthiness of digital infrastructure.

10. Build a cybersecurity-based identity management vision and strategy that addresses privacy and civil liberties interests, leveraging privacy-enhancing technologies for the Nation."
President's Key Message:

“From now on, our digital infrastructure — the networks and computers we depend on every day — will be treated as they should be: as a strategic national asset. Protecting this infrastructure will be a national security priority. We will ensure that these networks are secure, trustworthy and resilient.” ... "We will develop a new comprehensive strategy to secure America's information and communications networks." [Link]
Key Message: “Cyberspace touches practically everything and everyone. It provides a platform for innovation and prosperity and the means to improve general welfare around the globe. But ... great risks threaten nations, private enterprises, and individual rights ... The architecture of the Nationʼs digital infrastructure, based largely upon the Internet, is not secure or resilient.”
 
Key Message: “The United States must work actively with countries around the world to make the digital infrastructure a trusted, safe, and secure place that enables prosperity for all nations”.
 
Keywords: Identity management, IdM, USOW, policy
Websites:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/documents/Cyberspace_Policy_Review_final.pdf
See also: Behavioural Trust and Identity
About the Office:

The Executive Office of the President (EOP) was created in 1939 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The EOP has responsibility for tasks ranging from communicating the President’s message to the American people to promoting our trade interests abroad.

The Office and Science and Technology is an entity within the Executive Office of the President. Congress established the Office of Science and Technology Policy in 1976 with a broad mandate to advise the President and others within the Executive Office of the President on the effects of science and technology on domestic and international affairs. The 1976 Act also authorizes OSTP to lead interagency efforts to develop and implement sound science and technology policies and budgets, and to work with the private sector, state and local governments, the science and higher education communities, and other nations toward this end.

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