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The National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA), based in the United States, is analyzing blockchain as a means of ensuring the privacy and security of aircraft flight information, according to an official document published Monday on the agency's website.
An aeronautical engineer at the NASA Ames Research Center, Ronald Reisman, has released a
document January 7, proposing that distributed ledger technology (DLT) networks and smart contracts can help some security issues.
The suggested system would use an authorized open source DLT to allow secure, private and more anonymous communications with responsible air traffic services. The document states:
"This framework includes a certification authority, intelligent contract support and broader bandwidth communication channels for private information that can be used for secure communications between any specific aircraft and any specific authorized member."
Keep sensitive private information
As of Wednesday, January 1, 2020, the United States has been authorized by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to take over
Transmission for dependent automatic surveillance (ADS-B) – a modern surveillance system that will publicly transmit the identity of an aircraft, altitude and longitude (position) and other important information.
This has raised many security questions among stakeholders, Ronald revealed in his paper, elaborating that the ADS-B system contains no provisions for the preservation of these same aircraft privacy alternatives, and does not address the potential for spoofing, denial of service and other clearly documented risk factors.
Civil aircraft companies would opt to maintain some private information, writes Ronald, for example, to anticipate the tracing of managers as part of corporate espionage activities.
Data on military aircraft traffic, meanwhile, are defined by the Department of Defense as "data that, if detected, would reveal vulnerabilities in the vital DoD structure and, if used, would likely lead to termination of pregnancy, damage or destruction of DoD. activities, structures or participations ".
Taking into account the sensitivity of the relevant air traffic data, the armed forces need secrecy in all likelihood to remain critical in their adoption and exploitation of ADS-B.
Addressing these issues, the researcher shows a prototype in the document, called Aviation Blockchain Infrastructure (ABI), based on Hyperledger Fabric and smart contracts, and allows control over what information is shared privately or in public with the authorities.
We Go Digital
For example, aircraft status data such as altitude, speed, direction and others could be kept protected through a private channel, while flight plan data such as aircraft type, route, origin , final destination and others may be published on the public platform for access to all sanctioned members.
Ronald reveals:
"We suggest using a" slightly authorized "DLT framework to allow ADS-B systems to meet or exceed the same levels of privacy and security currently offered by radar-based systems in the National Airspace System."
Remember, this is not the first time that NASA has deepened DLT technology for technological improvements. In February 2018, he granted around
$ 330,000 to a certain professor from the University of Akron (UA), to research Ethereum DLT to mechanically and automatically detect floating debris.
In December 2018, the development company DLT Blockstream also revealed its plans to expand its satellite service with the 5th satellite and is currently broadcasting Bitcoin DLT to all the main land masses of the Earth, Forbes
reported December 17.
As Coinidol
reported In April of last year, NASA, in collaboration with UA researchers in Ohio, USA, launched a new research program to investigate the potential practical application of ETH-based DLT for space communication and navigation.
