pub: Synaptic Labs' 3 inputs to NITRD's Call for "Leap Ahead" ideas (2009)

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Full Title:	Synaptic Labs Participation in the U.S. Federal NITRDʼs Call for Leap Ahead Ideas in 2009
Authors:	Benjamin Gittins, Ron Kelson
Organisation:	Synaptic Laboratories Limited
Date:	January, 2010
Electronic publication:	Download PDF document
Keywords:	PQS, Identity Management, Cryptographic Key Management, Global-scale, IdM, CKM, Diffie-Hellman-Lamport, NITRD
Synaptic Labs' Participation:	NITRD is an US Federally research and development co-ordination project. This document publishes all 3 of Synaptic Labs' inputs to NITRD's National Cyber Leap Year "Request for Input" process as listed below: Submission 1: "A Post Quantum Secure, End-to-End, Universal Security Framework (PQSUSF)" Submission 2: "Universal distributed decentralised federated post quantum secure eID (PQSeID)" Submission 3: "A Post Quantum Secure Universal Network Carrier Network of the Future (PQSUNC)"
About NITRD:	The Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program is America's primary source of Federally funded revolutionary breakthroughs in advanced information technologies such as computing, networking, and software. NITRD is a collaboration of more than a dozen Federal research and development agencies, including DARPA, DHS, DOE, EPA, NARA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, NSA, NSF, OSD and DoD.
See also:	Synaptic Labs' proposals subsequently submitted to the NITRD NCLY Summit 2009.
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