Texas Technology - Fall 2008 - (Page M1) TUC A Product of ACCI Tactically Unbreakable COMSEC A Multi-level, Multi-tier security solution operating at hardware speeds rather than software speeds What sets TUC apart? Tactically Unbreakable COMSEC (TUC) is a totally new encryption medium that operates at hardware speeds, significantly faster than conventional software encryption. This is possible because the hardware technology is based on reconfigurable logic chips called Field Programmable Gated Arrays (FPGAs). FPGAs contain logic arrays that mirror the function of standard integrated circuit chips; however, the connectivity among transistors is remotely reprogrammable, allowing the actual hardware to be re-programmed. TUC can rapidly reconfigure FPGAs “on-the-fly” – over 700,000-times per second. Encryption schemes, communications protocols, and compression protocols are added to a library of logic architectures (blueprints) stored in flash memory on a TUC device. TUC provides encryption by swapping data packet payloads among the architectures… essentially “protocol hopping,” “encryption hopping,” and “compression hopping.” The library can be updated over-the-air for radio or computer network devices that incorporate TUC encryption. New or legacy architectures can be securely updated from remote servers providing industry’s first forward and backward compatible technology. Using this same update feature, device interoperability is made simple by loading new (or legacy) hardware architectures and communications protocols “on-the-fly.” Once the connection is built with any packet-based protocol, a different encryption path is followed for each packet. This allows a secure connection over an insecure network, with multi-level security available on demand. Device TUC will not only be the fastest and most versatile device on the market, it is also the inexpensive to acquire and maintain. TUC devices can be designed for digital radios and most popular computer interfaces: USB or RJ-45 dongle, PCMCIA card, PCI Express board or other form factor per customer request (example: installed on a digital radio card). It will support both local area networking and peer-to-peer networking. TUC can be altered “on-the-fly” to meet different levels of encryption required by different websites or email servers. In essence, the end-user, a LAN system administrator, or a national-level network Command and Control Center can dynamically alter the level of encryption required for secure data exchange. Units can also be developed with the firmware and hardware necessary to provide mobile, encrypted, interoperable communications for First Responders and Homeland Security.
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