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The Information Survivability activity develops the technology base underlying the solutions to protect DoD's mission-critical information systems against attack upon or through the supporting infrastructure. These technologies lead to generations of stronger protection, higher performance, and more cost-effective security solutions scalable to several thousand sites and to high performance computing technologies. The activity focuses on early prototypes of software and hardware technologies leading to scalable protection for large-scale heterogeneous systems usable over a wide range of performance in diverse threat environments. Technologies developed under this project will be exploited in other DARPA programs, including Networking Systems, Scalable Systems and Software, Microsystems, Defense Technology Integration and Infrastructure, Defense Information Enterprise Technologies, Intelligent Integration of Information, Advanced Distributed Simulation, Health Information Infrastructure, Optical Networking, Software Assurance, Software Foundations, Embedded Computing, and Global Mobile Communications, to satisfy defense requirements for secure and survivable systems. The activity is organized into four areas: High Confidence Networking, High Confidence Computing Systems, Assurance and Integration, and Survivability and Vulnerabilities.
High Confidence Networking technologies will be developed consisting of security mechanisms and value-added security services for integration into network technologies, as well as robust networking protocols that provide modular security services and mechanisms. High Confidence Computing Systems includes secure and fault-tolerant operating systems, firewalls, and system management tools to provide high reliability for distributed computations and to allow geographically-separated parts of an organization to interact as if they shared a common security perimeter. Assurance and Integration tools will allow the development of high assurance and trusted systems that add expression of modular system structures, networking, and other distributed-system protocols and the ability to reason about their security and robustness properties. The Survivability and Vulnerabilities area studies other vulnerabilities in the defense computing infrastructure and in emerging critical technologies that could be exploited by an information warfare enemy. |
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Developed basic authentication and authorization mechanisms based on digital signatures, cryptography, and privacy-enhanced mail for use in a common infrastructure.
Completed proof-of-concept Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) encryption units for use in experimental ATM networks. Began operation of certification authority supporting privacy enhanced mail and other secure services. Completed prototype implementation of digital signature hierarchy toolkit and domain name system enhancements. Demonstrated operating system capability for strict process separation. Demonstrated prototype signature/time stamp server with associated access tools for location-independent object security. |
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