Thursday, July 17, 2008

XeroBank Blacknet & CryptoRouters

The skunk works team has finished developing the commercial blacknet, a rather legendary network type beyond the scope of darknets. It is a commercial and government-level IPSec / IPIP / GRE anonymity network. Judging by the design documents, it is a sophisticated 3+ hop system using cryptographic terminators and recrypting to prevent watermarking and fingerprinting attacks, in addition to traffic padding, mixing, and crowding. It is also capable of something called closed-group routing. That essentially means you could have a heavily protected zero-trust anonymous VPN between that peers between you and your allies, that is impervious to penetration even by the service provider itself. There is absolutely nothing like this available anywhere else.

What does this mean for personal users? This network is entirely separate from the XeroBank network, so there won't be any traffic mixing between these networks without a gateway.

So what does this mean for corporations? Your office can now have deployable and seamless anonymous internet access through a hardware device, and it can also communicate with satellite offices in an encrypted, anonymous, high-confidence network. Just plug in a cryptorouter into your network and everyone behind it is protected.

And what does that mean for governments? Your offices and agencies can communicate securely, anonymously, without having to trust any party in the anonymity network because it is end-to-end encrypted, with extremely low political risk. Not to mention, for government contracts, the network offers stateless anonymity, meaning that if you're transmitting classified information and your comsat falls from the sky, or your fiber-optic link is cut, your transmission isn't going to be interrupted.

You can expect more information to be coming soon.