Combinatorial Security Platform Message Sharding
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current messaging applications over the public Internet are vulnerable to interception and exploitation by hackers due to the constant evolution of security protocols and the sophistication of hacking techniques, leading to a race where both sides rely on commonly used encryption methods that can be eventually breached.
Innovation Solution
A combinatorial security platform that breaks messages into shards, encrypts them with unique algorithms, and distributes them across multiple servers, requiring the attacker to expend excessive computational time to reconstruct the message, while ensuring the message is only retrievable by the intended recipient using a dynamic public/private key pair and time-gated access.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If common encryption methods are used for message transmission, then messaging security is provided, but vulnerabilities can be discovered and exploited by bad actors over time
Solution Approach 1:
The message is divided into multiple shards that are distributed across different servers. Each shard contains only a portion of the complete message, making it useless to attackers who intercept individual shards. The message can only be reconstructed when all shards are collected, significantly enhancing security against interception and exploitation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces intermediary servers that act as secure storage points for message shards. These servers store encrypted portions of messages and require coordination to reconstruct the original message, adding an intermediate layer that prevents direct access to complete messages and protects against exploitation of end-to-end communication channels.
2Reliability
If security protocols are evolved to detect and close vulnerabilities, then message security is improved, but the computational complexity and time required for secure transmission increases
Solution Approach 1:
By segmenting messages into shards distributed across multiple servers, the system provides robust security without requiring complex encryption protocols. The security relies on the mathematical improbability of collecting all shards before the intended recipient, rather than on increasingly sophisticated encryption algorithms.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the security parameter from cryptographic complexity to temporal and spatial distribution. Instead of relying on hard-to-break encryption, the security model changes to require collection of multiple distributed shards within a specific time window, making the security parameter time-sensitive rather than computation-sensitive.
3Adaptability or versatility
If messages are transmitted over the public Internet, then global communication is enabled, but message traffic becomes vulnerable to interception by bad actors
Solution Approach 1:
Messages are segmented into multiple shards distributed across different servers globally. This allows the message to be transmitted over the public Internet through multiple intermediate points without exposing the complete message content, as each server only holds a fragment that is useless in isolation.
Solution Approach 2:
Multiple intermediary servers are introduced into the communication path, each holding a shard of the message. These intermediaries enable global communication reach while protecting against interception, as attackers would need to compromise multiple independent servers simultaneously to obtain the complete message.
4Reliability
If time-gated access and dynamic key pairs are used, then message retrieval security is enhanced, but the ease of operation for message transmission decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-distributing message shards to multiple servers before the intended recipient needs to retrieve the message. Time-gated access is pre-configured, and dynamic key pairs are generated in advance, enabling secure retrieval without requiring complex real-time operations when the message is actually accessed.
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AI summary
A system and method for the creation of combinatorial security is herein presented. The security of the transmission of a message from sender to receiver is strengthened if there is no direct transmission between the parties. The system provides for transforming an incoming message into an alphanumeric content object, segmenting or sharding that object, encrypting each shard with a unique encryption algorithm, and storing each shard into an unknown number of network server. A recipient is provided with a message notification that permits the recipient to retrieve and reconstruct the message content with no direct communication between the sender of the message and the recipient of the message.