SBIR/STTR Research Award
Secure Email Agent Using the Domain Name System (DNS) as a Trust Infrastructure
Award amount
$300,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2015Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Commerce
- Branch
- National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Recipient company
- Grier Forensics, LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2015-09-01
- Contract end date
- 2017-08-31
- UEI
- RUPTJRKY95L4
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- 9.02.03.77-R
Research abstract
Although protocols for securing email have been available for over twenty years, these protocols, by nature of their use of asymmetric cryptography, require users to have the public key or certificate of the correspondents. Grier Forensics will develop technology to use the Domain Name System (DNS) to distribute certificates and keys, making email secure, authenticated, and confidential, curbing the losses from phishing attacks and allowing people to use email as a simple, readily available means of trustworthy communication.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- FireSky FX: Edge-Deployed Cyber Effects Platform
- TIDAS: Trusted Identity for Autonomous Systems
- Cumulus: A Cloud-Based Internet of Things Testing Platform
- Cumulus: A Cloud-Based Internet of Things Testing Platform
- AFWERX AFRL-RI -- SilentWeb Cyber Environment
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Optimization of the NIST/UCSF Breast Phantom for Quantitative MRI
- Secure Email Agent Using the Domain Name System (DNS) as a Trust Infrastructure
Research funding history
16 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2014–2025). Reported award amounts total $10,490,163. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Commerce, Department of Homeland Security