Improve Internet Security

The current internet architecture uses trusted approach at the transport IP level.
This is continuously exploited by criminals, allowing them to infiltrate millions of users and the most critical systems.

It is becoming harder and harder to secure digital assets, as all protective techniques built on top of the insecure IP foundation will always fail.

We need disruptive solutions that will create a shift in the balance of things — providing a vital lead over malicious factors, completely altering our approach toward cyber-security.

Required action

Internationally coordinated action is required in order to provide new foundation for a new "internetwork" solution, which substantially reduces ability to bring such network down or infect end nodes en large.

We call on the international bodies including IEEE and all Governments, to form a coordinated taskforce to save the existing internet (or rather services provided by the existing internet) from the imminent collapse due to rapidly raising cyber-security threads.

New technology

The task is not easy and requires replacing of the existing old concept of the open IP transport protocol and related broadcast technique and DNS - with a new low level secure transport solution.

Possible technical approach

While the new solution shall be designed by a specialist teams, it is suggested that such new transport could be based on secure handshaking, not allowing for any further data packets exchange whatsoever between the sending and receiving endpoints in case the initial strongly authenticated handshake is not established between them.

All content of data packets other than headers shall be securely coded based on the initial handshake security, so there is limited need for higher level encryption solutions.

Endpoint security shall be provided by the hardware and embedded software of network interfaces rather than by the operating systems, not allowing any data from not authenticated senders entering the OS.

Senders and receivers of packets shall be clearly identifiable for strong authentication purposes.

Packets inspection will be available only at the level of their headers, as the content is always strongly encoded. Therefore universal system of packets marking shall be implemented for efficient routing and QoS purposes

Result of no action

If no consolidated international action is undertaken now, the existing internet will become unusable very soon due to extreme grow of cyber attacks and criminal activities. Core infrastructure may be misconfigured and communication systems may collapse. The effects of this on the entire world population and economy, can not be underestimated.