Secure Censor-resistant Overlay Resilient Networks (SCORE)

SCORE或安全抗审查覆盖弹性网络，旨在提供通过非合作5G基础设施安全运行的能力。针对典型非合作环境的大多数设计采用零信任体系结构来解决端到端机密性和完整性不足的问题，并提供通信安全以防止窃听和欺骗。SCORE超越了这一点，它考虑了带有恶意软件、后门、路径内和路径上审查器的非合作环境，这些审查器可以检测、降低或阻止被禁止的通信。在这种融合研究努力中，我们将积极参与NSF/国防部组织的联合培训和跨队列协作、创新课程，并从国际法、伦理和治理以及社会和政治科学的其他表演者团队中寻找合作者，以解决真实网络中的部署问题。我们的多学科研究团队由来自无线通信和网络、计算机科学和加密数学的业界和学术界的领先研究人员和专家组成，Score构建了一个新颖的、安全的、抗审查的覆盖网络，由节点/用户设备(UE)上的SCORE软件和隐藏在白名单应用程序中的通道组成，以便在SCORE节点之间形成通信路径。具体地，分数确定：(I)通向接收器的下一跳分数节点，(Ii)通过其将数据传输到下一跳的应用，(Iii)应用所需的通信参数，以及(Iv)用于伪装数据的编码/混淆方法。SCORE还提供了安全的网络软件分发和更新机制，使SCORE软件可以在现场更新，而无需将其带到安全位置。

SCORE or Secure Censor-resistant Overlay Resilient Networks, aims to provide the ability to securely operate through non-cooperative 5G infrastructures. Most designs for typical non-cooperative environments employ zero-trust architectures to address the lack of end-to-end confidentiality and integrity, with communication security to prevent eavesdropping and spoofing. SCORE goes beyond this and considers non-cooperative environments with malware, backdoors, in-path and on-path censors – , which can detect –, degrade or block prohibited communications.   In this convergence research effort, we will actively participate in the joint NSF/DOD-organized training and cross-cohort collaboration, innovation curriculum, and seek collaborators from other performer teams in international law, ethics and governance, and social and political science, to address deployment issues in real networks.  Our multi-disciplinary research team comprises is composed of leading researchers and experts from industry and academe academia in wireless communication and networks, computer science and cryptographic mathematics, control and autonomous systems, formal methods, security and safety-critical, and networked cyber-physical systems.   SCORE constructs a novel, secure, censor-resistant overlay consisting of SCORE software on nodes/user equipment (UE) and channels hidden in whitelisted applications, in order to form communication paths among SCORE nodes. Specifically, SCORE determines: (i) the next-hop SCORE node toward the receiver, (ii) the application over which the data is transported to the next-hop, (iii) the communication parameters needed by the application, and (iv) the encoding/obfuscation method used to disguise the data. SCORE also provides a secure over-the-network software distribution and update mechanism so that SCORE software can be updated in the field without needing to be brought into a secure location.