TC: Medium: Collaborative Research: WHISPER - Wireless, Handheld, Infrastructureless, Secure Communication System for the Prevention of Eavesdropping and Reprisal

TC：媒介：合作研究：WHISPER - 用于防止窃听和报复的无线、手持式、无基础设施、安全通信系统

• 批准号: 0964545
• 负责人: Robert Dick
• 金额: $ 75.48万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-06-01 至 2015-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0964545&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: TC; Medium; Collaborative; Research; WHISPER

This project focuses on the design of an infrastructurelesscommunication system that makes it easy for people without expertisein computer security to safely communicate with friends and familymembers without being subjected to third-party surveillance,censorship, propaganda, or reprisal. The primary goals of this workare to (1) further open access to information people require toeducate themselves and (2) make sharing information easier.Particular attention is paid to designing protocols that do not relyon centralized control points, which are subject to attack. Theinfluence of patterns in human behavior on communication systemperformance, energy efficiency, and security are being studied, andthe findings used to guide the development of better, user-aware,communication protocols. Design and analysis of communicationprotocols; defenses against side-channel attacks on portablecommunication devices; distributed system architecture; andenergy-efficient software systems play central roles in the work.

该项目的重点是设计一个无基础设施的通信系统，使没有计算机安全专业知识的人能够轻松安全地与朋友和家人通信，而不会受到第三方的监视，审查，宣传或报复。 这项工作的主要目标是（1）进一步开放人们需要教育自己的信息的访问和（2）使信息共享更容易。特别注意的是设计不依赖于集中控制点的协议，这是容易受到攻击。 人们正在研究人类行为模式对通信系统性能、能源效率和安全性的影响，并将研究结果用于指导更好的、用户感知的通信协议的开发。 通信协议的设计和分析;对便携式通信设备的侧信道攻击的防御;分布式系统架构;以及节能软件系统在工作中起着核心作用。