I-Corps: Chaotic Hybrid Encryption Communication Kit (CHECK)

在过去的几十年里，信息已经成为企业和个人最重要的资产。我们经常在新闻中看到，网络攻击不再只针对军队或企业，世界变得更加虚拟，因此更加暴露。从世界各国政府到企业再到普通公民，每个人都需要安全的通信。目前市场上有几种获得专利的加密方法，其中大多数依赖于数字方案来加密和解密消息。网络空间的攻击和防御方法需要不断变化，就像疾病和免疫力之间的生物军备竞赛一样。本计画提出一种结合联合收割机类比、计算、数位计算与混沌的新方法与装置，以产生潜在的加密与解密之密钥。这个I-Corps团队已经成功开发了知识产权和该技术的纯软件概念验证。本发明的长期愿景包括构建硬件加密设备以保护对等通信。由于该解决方案最终将在硬件中实现，因此它将比类似复杂性的当前技术执行得更快。所提出的技术将提供能够非常快速地求解常微分方程（ODE）的软件可编程混合信号电路。通过将系统配置为数字可调混合混沌振荡器，该设备生成连续变化的密钥流（“无限密钥”）。密钥由通信两端的加密/解密算法使用。该加密方案依赖于两个混沌振荡器的同步，这两个振荡器分别运行在一个硬件设备上，该硬件设备生成相同的密钥序列来恢复消息。该设备支持与行业标准加密算法集成，并可安装在使用网络物理系统（CPS）的组织上。大多数CPS与具有实时要求和有限处理资源的计算系统完全集成。该团队将选择两个或三个行业（部门），通过使用拟议技术的特定应用程序来解决问题，并对它们进行排名。 该团队还将进行市场评估和与潜在客户的前景访谈，以验证对拟议技术的需求。最终，这些可能是alpha/beta测试的候选者，以验证所提出的技术。

The last decades, information has emerged as the most important asset to protect for corporations and persons. We often see in the news that cyber-attacks no longer exclusively target the military or enterprise.The world is more virtual, and thus more exposed. Everyone - from world governments to business to private citizens - demands secure communications. There are several patented methods of encryption available in the market today, most of which rely on digital schemes to encrypt and decrypt messages. Methods of attack and defense in cyberspace require constant change, similar to biological arms races between, for instance, disease and immunity. This project proposes a novel method and apparatus that can combine analog,computing, digital computing and chaos in order to generate potentially in nite keys for encryption and decryption. This I-Corps team has successfully developed intellectual property and a software-only proof-of-concept of this technology. The long term vision of the invention includes building a hardware encryption device to secure peer-to-peer communication. Since the solution will ultimately be implemented in hardware, it will execute faster than current techniques of similar complexity. In summary, this invention is a novel way to perform encryption that has tremendous potential to protect both critical national infrastructure and individual privacy.The proposed technology will provide software-programmable mixed-signal circuitry capable to solve Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs) very fast. By configuring the system as a digitally-tunable hybrid chaotic oscillator the device generates a stream of continuously changing keys ("infinite key"). The keys are used by the encryption/decryption algorithm at both ends of the communication. The encryption scheme relies on the synchronization of two chaotic oscillators, running separately on a hardware device which generates the same sequence of keys to recover messages. The device supports integration with industry standard encryption algorithms and can be installed on organizations using Cyber Physical Systems (CPS). Most CPSs are fully integrated with computational systems with real-time requirements and limited processing resources. This team will select two or three industry (sectors) to resolve through specific applications that use the proposed technology and rank them. The team will also conduct a market assessment and prospect interviews with potential customers in order to validate the need for the proposed technology. Eventually, these might be candidates to alpha/beta-test to validate the proposed technology.