Secure Wireless Digital Proxy

In response to the Air Force’s need for securing personal mobile devices for use as digital proxies, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to develop a new power security authentication (PSA)-centric Wireless Energy-Centric Secure Network (WEXNET) system. The WEXNET system is a Local Area Network (LAN) of WEX-Digital-Proxy (WEX DP for short) devices, combining MID computing capability and complete security/authentication with Blackberry-like compactness and maximized run-time (up to several years). The WEX approach is based on the minimal addition of security hardware, in the form of the external WEX tag, added to each WEX-DP, and embedded security software inside the WEX-DP. If the device has been stolen, the hostile party will have extreme difficulty breaking the system (decrypting the internal memory data), because the key, used once only, must be broken before it expires. In Phase I, POC will conduct a feasibility demonstration of the WEXNET design along with a demonstration of the performance against established parameters of current digital proxy technology such as communication protection, and compatibility, computational load, battery life, and size/weight. In Phase II, POC will implement device hardware, firmware, and software as well as security and networking for a full prototype system demonstration in a realistic environment. BENEFIT: The advantages of the proposed highly secure wireless personal mobile device working as a digital proxy are multifold in the current situation of highly intensive and very comprehensive cyberattacks in both the military and commercial sectors; thus, a robust security system such as WEXNET would be of value to corporate, government, and military consumers, including such commercial applications as banking, medical records, next-generation smart credit cards, police records, highly secure antitampering systems, advanced cryptographic systems, etc. WEXNET can support various products, including WEX tags applicable not only to digital proxies but to other secure computing systems, WEX secure digital proxies, highly secure WEX antitampering systems, and many others. In general, the WEX tag concept opens a new arena of highly secure electronic devices, both wireless and wired.