Collaborative Research: SaTC: TTP: Medium: Defending the Supply Chain of Democracy: Towards a Cryptographically Verified and Authenticated Network of Laws

合作研究：SaTC：TTP：媒介：捍卫民主供应链：迈向经过密码验证和认证的法律网络

• 批准号: 2247830
• 负责人: Franklin Ard
• 金额: $ 51.24万
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-08-01 至 2027-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2247830&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; SaTC; TTP; Medium

Democracy depends on a fair, transparent, and accurate system for making and distributing laws. Unfortunately, cyberattacks and malicious insiders have the ability to corrupt, destroy, or withhold access to the law, threatening the foundations of democracy itself by eroding trust in the reliability of digital legal systems. The project’s novelties are the development of tools to secure the law by creating a “digital legal supply chain.” These tools protect, validate, and authenticate laws and other legal information from the moment they are introduced in the legislative process through their publication and distribution in public repositories. The project's broader significance and importance are its improvements to the security and accessibility of the law, with corresponding benefits for the future of democracy and the trustworthiness of digital legal systems. This project builds and deploys an efficient, scalable, and accountable system to secure every step of the “digital legal supply chain”—lawmaking, publishing, archiving and preservation, authentication, and access to the law. This entails (1) long-term solutions for distributing, archiving, and accessing authenticatable laws securely and in perpetuity; (2) systems for authentication integrated into the legislative process to provide auditable assurances that the laws as passed are those elected officials intended to pass; (3) tools for the release of authenticatable redacted documents; and (4) refining the user experience for these systems to make them suitable for adoption by governments of all sizes and institutional capacities. The team of researchers is deploying these improvements in The Archive Framework (TAF), a framework for near-term publication and authentication of the law, that is used in production in five U.S. jurisdictions, and in the process of adoption in two additional jurisdictions.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.

民主取决于制定和分发法律的公平，透明和准确的系统。不幸的是，网络攻击和恶意内部人士具有腐败，摧毁或扣留法律的访问权，威胁到民主本身的基础，通过侵蚀了对数字法律制度的可靠性的信任来威胁民主的基础。该项目的新颖性是开发通过建立“数字法律供应链”来确保法律的工具的开发。这些工具可以通过在公共存储库中发布和分发在立法过程中引入，验证和身份验证法律和其他法律信息。该项目更广泛的意义和重要性是其对法律的安全性和可及性的改善，对民主的未来和数字法律制度的可信赖性提供了相应的好处。该项目构建并部署了一个高效，可扩展和负责的系统，以确保“数字法律供应链”的每个步骤 - 制定，出版，存档和保存，认证以及对法律的访问。该实体（1）长期解决方案，用于牢固且永久地分发，归档和访问真实的法律； （2）将身份验证的系统集成到立法过程中，以提供可审核的保证，即通过的法律是那些旨在通过的当选官员； （3）用于发布可验证的编辑文档的工具； （4）完善这些系统的用户体验，以使其适合各种规模和机构能力的政府采用。研究人员团队正在将这些改进在档案框架（TAF）中部署，这是一个近期出版和对法律认证的框架，该框架用于五个美国司法管辖区的生产中，并在两个司法管辖区采用的过程中。该奖项颁发了NSF的法定任务，并反映了NSF的法规和评估的范围，该奖项已被视为众所周知的范围。