Applications for Multi-Terabit Networking

Trlokom proposes to develop a novel hardware and software for end-to-end secure communication. The proposed Phase II work is based on our successful Phase I work. We have developed a system-level architecture and a new protocol NGISec for NAT and QoScompatible end-to-end secure communication. Our proposed architecture is scalable and will improve the performance by enabling the end-hosts to take over the computer intensive task of secure data communication. Since the network interface card of theend-host CPU is not burdened. Wire-speed cryptographic processing of the data by the NIC will make denial-of-service attacks against the system much more difficult. Our proposed effort will be a key enabling technology for the development and deployment ofapplication independent solution for end-to-end security removes the burden of security from the application, thus making them more efficient. A single security solution for all networked applications simplifies the security architecture and is less likelyto have security vulnerabilities compared to the scenario where applications manage their own security.