DARPA Wants To Make a Better, More Secure Version of WhatsApp

'The Defense and Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) appears to
be in the process of developing its own ultra secure communication
platform. The program is called "Resilient Anonymous Communication for
Everyone," or RACE, and it will be similar to WhatsApp in that it will
be for everyone to use. Trusted Reviews reports:

The objectives of the program are to create a distributed messaging
system that can do three things: Exist completely within a network;
Provide confidentiality, integrity and availability of messaging; and
Preserve privacy to any participant in the system.

DARPA seem to be putting security front and center, and the
description of the project claims that "compromised system data and
associated networked communications should not be helpful for
comprising any additional parts of the system," meaning that DARPA are
keen that one breach shouldn't also give them a leg up on access to
other parts of the system. So, will we soon be using a U.S government
branded DARPA? Probably not, but the chances are that RACE will go
some way to creating a messaging app that's resilient to attacks, with
the protocol and security they find no doubt dripping through to
consumer tech and features in the coming years. '

-- source: https://it.slashdot.org/story/19/04/15/2052250

Cheers, Peter
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/
http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
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