SBIR Phase I: Security Gateway Processing Software for an Inclusive Public-Facing, Limited-Purpose Destination System

小型企业创新研究(SBIR)第一阶段项目的更广泛影响/商业潜力是帮助为有限的目的实现与世界各地公众的安全和包容性互联网接口，从为数字货币提供分类账系统的目的开始。互联网接口的包容性方面允许中间人和世界各地的公众使用各种机制发送通信，只要在互联网接口接收的通信符合统一格式。作为实现数字货币的一项使能技术，该项目将减少对目前现金交易机制的依赖，包括自动柜员机(ATM)、支票和汇款需要收费的服务。这个SBIR第一阶段项目建议使分类账系统能够在不需要提供商依赖任何特定中介的情况下运行，并且可以想象地接受并安全地处理来自未识别来源的分组。该项目的两个核心问题是，在向第三方机构提供与数字货币账簿对接的特殊访问或特权方面缺乏信任，以及需要增加访问权限，以便个人不需要安装了预先批准的应用程序的智能手机就可以与数字货币账簿对接。研究目标确保可以检查为数字货币分类账安全网关推出的特定格式，以确保不存在各种威胁。该项目将用不同的安全检查对多核处理器的不同核心进行编程，并将安全检查的性能作为一种安全协议进行同步，以快速高效地处理大量数据包，以符合所需的格式。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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) Phase I project is to help enable safe and inclusive internet interfaces with the worldwide public for limited purposes, starting with the purpose of providing a ledger system for digital currency. The inclusive aspect of the internet interface allows intermediaries and the worldwide public to use varied mechanisms to send communications, as long as the communications received at the internet interface comply with the uniform format. As an enabling technology for implementing digital currency, this project will reduce reliance on current mechanisms for cash transactions including automatic teller machines (ATMs), checks, and services that require fees for sending money. This SBIR Phase I project proposes to enable a ledger system to operate without requiring the provider to rely on any particular intermediary, and conceivably to accept and safely process packets from unrecognized sources. Two problems at the heart of this project are the lack of trust in giving third party institutions special access or privileges in interfacing with a digital currency ledger, and the need to increase access so individuals do not need a smartphone with a preapproved application in order to interface with the digital currency ledger. The research objectives ensure that a specific format pushed out for a security gateway for a digital currency ledger can be inspected to ensure a variety of threats are not present. The project will program different cores of a multicore processor with different security checks and synchronize performance of the security checks as a safety protocol that quickly and efficiently processes large volumes of packets for compliance with the required format.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.