Now that the cold war is over, everyone seems to be branching out: Subject: Information_surety SAND No: 93-2873 Category: Communications, Computers, Information Theory Subcategory: Computer Security, Cryptography, Information security, Computer Reliability Title: Information surety Summary: Sandia National Laboratories has developed considerable expertise in all aspects of information surety, including the design and analysis of cryptographic systems, cryptographic key management implementations of cryptographic algorithms and protocols, system reliability, system availability, authentication systems, biometric identification devices, tamper resistant technologies, and computer and network security. Our unique strengths include our expertise in providing high security and reliability for a complete system and in our highly experienced adversarial analysis team. We have now begun to apply these capabilities in information surety to new problems of national importance. Potential Applications: - Private and secure computerized patient records - Secure home banking - Secure remote access - Private and secure electronic cash - Secure bank cards - Efficient Implementations of Cryptographic algorithms - Digital Signatures - Private communications - Cryptographic key management - Reliability and availability analysis of computing and information systems Status: Joint research projects are encouraged. License available for efficient exponentiation and for probable secure digital signatures. FOR MORE INFORMATION E-mail address, TechTransfer@ccsmtp.sandia.gov Telephone: Technology Transfer Center (505) 2-1--888 Location: Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM. Expanded Description: For the past 20 years, Sandia National Laboratories has had responsibility for information surety systems used in command and control of weapon systems and in the communications of weapon release messages. To meet these responsibilities, we have developed considerable expertise in all aspects of information surety, including the design and analysis of cryptographic systems, cryptographic key management, implementations of cryptographic algorithms and protocols, system reliability, system availability, authentication systems, biometric identification devices, tamper resistant technologies, and computer and network security. One of our unique strengths is our highly experienced adversarial analysis team. Before a system is recommended for deployment, it has been thoroughly tested by this team, whose sole goal is to defeat the security features of the system. Sandia has developed rigorous system design methodologies to meet high reliability and availability requirements. Sandia scientists have won awards for their work on cryptoanalysis and resynchronization of encrypted channels. We have now begun to apply these capabilities in information surety to new problems of national importance. References: IEEE article AT&T Technical Journal article fast exponentiation article biometric identification article Other Information Resources: None Related Categories and Subcategories: Biometric identification, system reliability and availability Key Words: Cryptography, coding theory, error correcting codes, privacy, digital signatures, encryption, key management, nonrepudiation, biometrics, reliability, availability ----------------------------- Art McGee [amcgee@netcom.com] -----------------------------