• “It's not good enough to have a system where everyone (using the system) must be trusted, it must also be made robust against insiders!”

    Robert Morris, former Chief Scientist of the US National Security Agency (NSA), National Computer Security Center, "Crypto '95 invited talks by R. Morris and A. Shamir", 1995

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  • "One should not assume that stakeholders do not care about their security merely because they do not understand the consequences of certain actions. The perception of risk can vary significantly from actual risk and, in the short term, convenience may lead some early adopters to make hazardous decisions."

    SecurIST, “D3.3 – ICT Security & Dependability Research beyond 2010: Final Strategy”, January 2007
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  • "Given their power to intercept and disrupt secret communications, it is not surprising that quantum computers have the attention of various U.S. government agencies.  The National Security Agency, which supports research in quantum computing, candidly declares that given its interest in keeping U.S. government communications secure, it is loath to see quantum computers built. On the other hand, if they can be built, then it wants to have the first one.”

    Prof Seth Lloyd of MIT, MIT Review 2008

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Summit: National Cyber Leap Year Summit 2009 (Nov 2009)
Organisation:

US Networking and Information Technology Research and Development
Synaptic Labs' Participation:

The 17-19 August 2009 ‘closed’ USA National Cybersecurity Summit explored new proposals to protect the USA national ICT infrastructure.

The Summit brought together 125 of the USA’s leading innovators with 40 observers from 13 of the largest USA Federal Agencies.

On the strength of Synaptic Labs' three submissions to the NITRD Leap Ahead call for ideas, our CTO was one of the very non USA Citizens invited to attend this summit. Synaptic Labs made 6 innovative proposals to the Summit and all were accepted and included in, and Synaptic Labs was named in, the summit report.

See relevant extracts, including the 6 innovative proposals, from those reports here.
About NCLY: "The Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program, under guidance from the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Defense Networks and Information Integration held a National Cyber Leap Year Summit.

The Summit gathered innovators from the academic and commercial sectors for an unconventional exploration of five fundamentally game-changing concepts in cybersecurity."
Key message:

"The Nation’s economic progress and social well-being now depend as heavily on cyberspace assets as on interest rates, roads, and power plants, yet our digital infrastructure and its foundations are still far from providing the guarantees that can justify our reliance on them. The inadequacy of today’s cyberspace mechanisms to support the core values underpinning our way of life has become a national problem."
Keywords: leap ahead, NITRD, game change, identifier based encryption
Website: http://www.nitrd.gov/leapyear/index.aspx
Citation:

QinetiQ. National Cyber Leap Year Summit 2009 – Co-Chairs’ Report. On behalf of the US NITRD Program. [Link]

QinetiQ. National Cyber Leap Year Summit 2009 – Participants’ Ideas Report. On behalf of the US NITRD Program. [Link]

Extracts from the NCLY Summit Reports and comments website related to Synaptic Labs. [Link]
See also:

US President's 60 day cyberspace policy review
IEEE Key Management Summit 2010
IBE enabling ubiquitous uptake of encryption
Behavioural Trust and Identity
About NITRD: The Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program is America's primary source of Federally funded revolutionary breakthroughs in advanced information technologies such as computing, networking, and software. NITRD is a collaboration of more than a dozen Federal research and development agencies, including DARPA, DHS, DOE, EPA, NARA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, NSA, NSF, OSD and DoD.

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