CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE USE OF REDUNDANCY TO ACHIEVE SURVIVABILITY IN THE PRESENCE OF MALICIOUS ATTACKS

Professor Yvo Desmedt of UWM's CEAS-Center for Cryptography, Computer and Network Security research group is the principal investigator for DARPA contract F30602-97-1-0205, "Critical Analysis of the Use of Redundancy to Achieve Survivability in the Presence of Malicious Attacks". Dr. Yongge Wang is the postdoc and Dr. Mike Burmester is the consultant on this project.

Project Objective

From the research on communication security one learns that, although redundancy has been utilized to achieve reliability, if the errors are caused maliciously the use of redundancy does not necessarily work. The goal is to adapt the lessons from the research on communication security to study when redundancy can and cannot be used to achieve survivability.