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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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"Even a relatively small quantum computer, one that had a few tens of thousands of qubits, could consider so many different values at once that it would be able to break all known [ed: RSA, D&H, ECC, AES-128] codes commonly used for secure Internet communication.”
Prof Seth Lloyd of MIT, MIT Review 2008
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"One often hears recommendations for key-sizes of public-key cryptosystems needed to obtain security for 30 years and even 50 years. Anyone wanting a real security of this magnitude should probably take the construction of the quantum computer into consideration."
ECRYPT, “D.PROVI.3 – First Summary Report on Unconditionally Secure Protocols”, January 2005

| Network of the Future home (Janelda project) |
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It is unrealistic to expect that all existing communications devices that have been deployed and are currently active in the field can be retroactively upgraded to employ information assurance operations. A vast number of these devices have no security operations. Those that do currently offer security operations use cryptographic operations that are at risk of catastrophic failure. It is not economically viable to upgrade or replace all of these devices before their natural life-cycle is over. An alternative solution must be found that secures the past and that can also secure the future in a coherent integrated fashion. Over the last 10 years Synaptic has been working on a new secure "universal network carrier" (UNC) with Network of the Future (NoF) capabilities called Janelda. A UNC is a new type of network envisioned by Synaptic Laboratories Limited where the communications protocol is explicitly designed from the onset to act as a secure host and performance enhancer for isochronous, cell and packet based network communications. This enables the UNC to natively host all communications protocols such as TCP/IP, ISDN, ATM, Ethernet, and so on with high quality service level agreements. This also enables a deployed UNC to host entirely new protocols that have not yet been designed, protocols that may have additional smarts or specific binary format requirements. Janelda is designed to support the European NoF, the European secure ambient intelligence (AmI) and the American secure Internet of Things visions. All of Synaptic technologies fall under a grand unifying vision of a new secure communications ecosystem. Access to additional information in this category may be restricted from you. Information available under this user account is accessible via the menu bar on the right of the screen under the Network of the Future menu item. |
| Last Updated on Friday, 18 March 2011 17:45 |
