• "Many crypto-systems considered robust have been broken after a certain amount of time (between 10-20 years).  ... We need to build crypto-systems that offer long term security, for example for protecting financial and medical information (medical information such as our DNA may be sensitive information with impact on our children, our grandchildren and beyond)."

    SecurIST, “D3.3 – ICT Security & Dependability Research beyond 2010: Final Strategy”, January 2007

     

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  • “The current way which organisations approach security can be recognised as an underlying market failure which consists of fire fighting security problems, silo'd implementation of technologies, uncontrolled application development practices and a failure to address systemic problems. Organisations tend to deal with one problem at a time that results in the deployment of point solutions to treat singular problems. This failure is typical of an uncontrolled marketplace evolving with little or no co-ordination.”

    The British Government’s Technology Strategy Board, 2008
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  • “The rapidly evolving field of quantum computers is one of the most active research areas of modern science, attracting substantial funding that supports research groups at internationally leading academic institutions, national laboratories, and major industrial-research centers.”

    ARDA, Report of the Quantum Information Science and Technology Experts Panel, 2004

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Home Technologies Key exchanges

Group KX

A low cost alternative to commercial quantum key distribution systems for applications requiring a higher level of security assurance without the performance limitations of QKD. Suitable for securing highly sensitive communications between groups of hundreds of devices located anywhere on the globe over any data communications networks.   

Enterprise KX

A flexible low cost key exchange infrastructure capable of 10 to 100 year security for inter-organisation communications and communications within an industry sector.  Prevents against multiple points of trust failure by online key exchange service providers. Suitable for environments with millions of users.

Universal KX

A scalable global online key exchange infrastructure capable of 100 year security between billions of users. Employs a federated distributed decentralised architecture that manages the complex web of divergent trust relationships that exist between users of the key exchange infrastructure. 

Synaptic 2 stage key exchanges

In Synaptic Labs' key exchange solutions the steps used to exchange the first key between two devices is different from the steps used to exchange each additional session key. Label 1 illustrates that an initial Group, Universal or Enterprise key exchange requires the assistance of at least one third party. After the first key exchange is complete the smart cards can now rapidly exchange new session keys directly with each other without any assistance as illustrated in label 2. 

Synaptic key exchanges home

Exceed the expected 10 year security lifetime of key exchanges based on public key technologies!

With the Enterprise Key Exchange and Universal Key Exchange technologies, Synaptic Laboratories is ushering in the world's first and only key exchange infrastructure based on symmetric techniques that can provide high assurance exchange of key material for global ICT security systems with millions to potentially billions of users; until recently, this was the exclusive domain of public key (asymmetric key) techniques.

Synaptic range of key exchange protocols have the following common features:

  • their cryptographic security is based on the underlying security of the block ciphers, stream ciphers and hash functions used to implement the protocol as recommended by ARDA. The use of symmetric cryptographic techniques offers higher levels of security against the threat of code-breaking quantum computers
  • they can take advantage of well studied U.S. government standards based cryptographic algorithms such as the NIST AES-256 cipher for privacy and NIST SHA-384 hash function to achieve a 30 year security rating
  • they are suitable for long lived infrastructure applications that require a 100 year security rating when running the NIST SHA-512 for authenticated encryption operations
  • they run efficiently in very low cost devices that cannot support the overhead of RSA like algorithms
  • they can protect mainstream asymmetric key exchange operations against attackers by wrapping an additional layer of security around them
  • key material can be derived by combining the output of any of Synaptic Labs' range of key exchange operations with the output of any other key exchange technology (standards based public key, experimental next generation public key, quantum key distribution, trusted courier, and so on).
To learn more about Synaptic Labs' unique range of key exchanges click on a link above.
Last Updated on Thursday, 30 July 2009 07:41