Low-observable encryption device for facilitating communications
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing communication devices are vulnerable to eavesdropping and geo-location through triangulation and trilateration, necessitating the development of low-observable encryption devices that enhance security and obfuscate location.
Innovation Solution
The low-observable encryption device incorporates encryption units, communication units, and beam steering antennas to encrypt and obfuscate communication packets, utilize connectionless headers, and employ beam steering to alter transmission angles and power, making it difficult to detect and intercept communications.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional communication devices are used, then communication functionality is provided, but devices are vulnerable to eavesdropping and geo-location attacks
Solution Approach 1:
The communication packet is segmented into multiple layers: native packet, connectionless datagram with connectionless header, and final packet with complex header. Each layer provides additional security and obfuscation, preventing adversaries from easily intercepting and analyzing the original communication content.
Solution Approach 2:
The encryption device acts as an intermediary between the native communication protocol and the network. It introduces connectionless headers and complex headers as intermediate layers that hide the true nature of the communication, preventing direct eavesdropping and geo-location attacks on the original devices.
2Difficulty of detecting and measuring
If beam steering antenna is used to alter transmission angles and power, then location obfuscation is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The beam steering antenna dynamically adjusts transmission angles and power levels in real-time. This dynamic behavior creates variable signal patterns that make triangulation and trilateration attacks ineffective, as the device appears to be in multiple locations simultaneously or moves too quickly for accurate geo-location.
3Reliability
If quantum-resistant encryption is implemented, then encryption strength is improved, but computational requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
Encryption and decryption operations are performed in advance at the communication endpoints (native devices and encryption devices). This preliminary action eliminates the need for continuous high-power computational operations during transmission, reducing overall power requirements while maintaining quantum-resistant security.
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AI summary
A low-observable encryption device for facilitating communications includes an encryption unit for encrypting an egressing native packet received from a device to create an encrypted egressing native packet and adding a connectionless header to the encrypted egressing native packet to form an egressing connectionless datagram, a communication unit for receiving and adding a complex header to the egressing connectionless datagram for forming an egressing packet, and a computing unit for establishing a communication session between the computing unit and an external computing unit of an external encryption device, transmitting an identifier list comprising identifiers and an identifier selecting parameter to the external computing unit, and receiving and forwarding the egressing packet to the external computing unit during a time interval through a path identified by the computing unit and the external computing unit based on the identifier list and the identifier selecting parameter.