SBIR Phase I: Decentralized Internet Access Management System with Post-Quantum Security

这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是阻止黑客进入网络。拟议的方法将保护房主免受普通家庭中配置不当的物联网设备带来的严重IT安全威胁。云计算和存储服务提供商以及普通网站所有者发现了减轻攻击、管理服务器控制命令和交付媒体内容的新方法。依赖稳定互联网连接的快速发展行业，如自动驾驶汽车和商用无人机，将有机会通过拟议的解决方案免受网络威胁。SBIR第一阶段项目旨在发现解决网络安全问题的新方法。在传统互联网中，可用ip和端口的数量相当少，因此很容易扫描一个人的网络并根据收到的响应看到潜在的漏洞。在web2.0中，用户将不再向所有人公开网络设备，而是可以把它们放在系统的后面进行开发，作为传统TCP/IP概念之上的附加层。由于系统只监听指定的32字节长的动态变化的IPFS地址，猜测正确的IPFS地址的机会是1/2256，因此实际上不可能有目的地找到“入口”。在研发过程中，该项目将致力于物理产品的实现，修改IPFS节点，并设计负责分散VPN通道和web 3.0媒体内容交付的协议，因为解决延迟问题将为分布式网络上的实时通信创造新的机会。本研究工作的另一个目标是减轻即将到来的量子计算机带来的威胁，这将通过使用适用于通过传统和分散媒介传输的数据的后量子加密算法来实现。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project is to stop hackers from entering networks. The proposed approach will protect home owners from serious IT security threats posed by improperly configured IOT devices in an average household. Cloud computing and storage service providers, as well as regular website owners, discover new ways to mitigate attacks, manage server control commands, and deliver media content. Rapidly developing industries relying on a stable internet connection, such as autonomous vehicles and commercial drones, will have the opportunity to be protected from cyber threats with the proposed solution. This SBIR Phase I project proposes to discover new approaches to cybersecurity matters. In the traditional internet the number of available IPs and ports is rather small, making it easy to scan one's network and see potential vulnerabilities based on responses received. Instead of exposing network devices to everyone on the web 2.0, users will be able to put them behind the system proposed for development, which acts as an additional layer on top of the traditional TCP/IP concept. With the system listening only to the designated 32-byte long dynamically changing IPFS address the chances of guessing the right one is 1/2256, thus making it practically impossible to purposefully find the “entrance”. During the research and development process the project will work on the physical product realization, modify IPFS nodes, and design protocols responsible for decentralized VPN channels and media content delivery on the web 3.0, because solving latency issues will create new opportunities for the real-time communications on distributed networks. Another goal of this research effort is to mitigate the forthcoming threats imposed by the quantum computers, which will be achieved through the utilization of post-quantum encryption algorithms applicable to data transmitted through the traditional and decentralized mediums.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.