Project Objectives

Security is traditionally seen as a national, rather than an EU-wide problem. Today, there is a lack of agreed standards against which to implement interoperable EU communication systems; this leads to an artificially small EU security market and a limited number of significant European security industries. The result of this is reactive rather than proactive deployment and specification of EU security systems with lengthy delivery timescales.

SUPHICE (Secure Unplanned High Integrity Crypto for Europe) will seek to address some of these issues by extending the current state-of-the-art in the following areas:

• interoperable security standards
• demonstration of secure ad-hoc network provision
• definition of tangible EU security policy

Expected results

Implementation of an algorithm originated within the EU that is suitable for EU High Grade encryption hosted on a soft-loaded IP cryptographic device.

Certification of the cryptographic device and proof of the EU dual certification process.

Specification, implementation and demonstration of the unplanned security architecture and framework definitions, including open standards interfaces, sample template rules and management of user credentials.

Definition of the means by which the cryptographic device and unplanned security elements may be certified.