• "History has taught us: never underestimate the amount of money, time, and effort someone will expend to thwart a security system. It's always better to assume the worst. Assume your adversaries are better than they are. Assume science and technology will soon be able to do things they cannot yet. Give yourself a margin for error. Give yourself more security than you need today. When the unexpected happens, you'll be glad you did."

    Bruce Schneier, "Why Cryptography Is Harder Than It Looks", 1997
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  • “Assurance is best addressed during the initial design and engineering of security systems, NOT as an after market patch. The earlier you include a security architect in your design process, the greater the likely hood of a successful and robust design. As the quip goes, he who gets to the (module) interface first wins.”

    Brian Snow, Former Technical Director of the US National Security Agency (NSA), "We need Assurance", AusCERT 2008

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  • “When will we be secure? Nobody knows for sure – but it cannot happen before commercial security products and services possess not only enough functionality to satisfy customers’ stated needs, but also sufficient assurance of quality, reliability, safety, and appropriateness for use. Such assurances are lacking in most of today’s commercial security products and services.”

    Brian Snow, Former Technical Director of the US National Security Agency (NSA), "We need Assurance", 2005

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Home Resources Synaptic publications Input to EC and US funded ICT initiatives pub: Synaptic Labs' 6 inputs to Think-Trust's D3.1 consultation process
pub: Synaptic Labs' 6 inputs to Think-Trust's D3.1 consultation process
Wednesday, 31 March 2010 00:00
Authors: Benjamin Gittins, Ron Kelson
Organisation: Synaptic Laboratories Limited
Date: January, 2010
Keywords: ENISA, PKI, Public Key Encryption, cryptographic key management, post quantum secure
Synaptic Labs' Participation:

Think-Trust (T-T) is an EC funded coordination project. Find 5 of Synaptic Labs' inputs to Think-Trust's 2010 consultation on its `Recommendations Report 3.1b' on future research for the European Commission (EC) below:

Part 1: The importance of Key Management in Cyber Security
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Part 2: The impact of rapidly evolving cyberspace security initiatives in the EU and US on international long term critical infrastructure projects such as in aerospace.
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Part 4: The need for the EC to fund the development of an electronic requirements management process to support the conversion of existing standards, existing policy guidelines and existing laws of several nations simultaneously in a unified requirements model that also supports national and regional variations.
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Part 5: A) The need to evaluate the effectiveness of data depersonalization techniques and it's impact on the community; and B) Measuring the wider impacts of unauthorised information disclosure.
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Part 6: A) Privacy Enhancing Technologies should be explicitly rejected if they act as a legitimizing facade behind which long-lived privacy invasion and political oppression could be deployed by (present or future) Governments, and B) We recommend that there is a need to explicitly require all stake-holders to be equally accountable in all information processing and security systems.
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About Think-Trust:

Think-Trust (FP7-216890) is a project funded by the European Commission's 7th Framework Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme, within the Unit F5 ICT for Trust and Security. It is investigating Trust, Security, Dependability, Privacy and Identity from ICT and Societal Perspectives.

Think-Trust is a Co-ordination Action (CA) project. It started on January 1st 2008, receives funding of 580,000 Euro and has a 30-month duration.
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