This $133,487 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) aims to develop innovative distributed network security frameworks for next-generation mobile networks. The key products and services to be delivered under this 4-year grant include:
- Creating distributed public-key infrastructure (PKI) and symmetric-key cryptographic schemes that are resilient to security breaches and quantum computing threats, leveraging techniques like secure multi-party computation and decentralized architectures.
- Developing distributed versions of NIST-standardized symmetric encryption algorithms to enable breach-resilient security services and privacy-preserving access control.
- Conducting comprehensive evaluation and validation of the proposed techniques on NSF cloud infrastructures and various hardware platforms.
- Providing educational and outreach activities such as interdisciplinary curriculum development and summer apprenticeships for minority K-12 students.
The research team at Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) will lead this collaborative project, with a focus on enhancing the trustworthiness, resilience, and security of future mobile network systems to support national security priorities.
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