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Rethinking security for "alternative computer architectures"
The Agentur für Innovation in der Cybersicherheit GmbH (Cyberagentur) wants to focus on the security and technological sovereignty of newly designed computer models beyond today's binary logic with a call for preliminary studies on alternative computer architectures. On 23 November 2023, it published the call for proposals for research into the security of fundamentally new computer technologies.
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The aim is to initiate the investigation of newly designed computer models that go beyond the current binary logic of current semiconductor chips. At present, most computers are digital computers in which the data storage and computing units are separate. However, there are fundamental and economic limits to increasing the performance of this technology. Further advances in computing therefore require new approaches and architectures. At the same time, new technologies could reduce dependence on strategic raw materials.
The call for proposals aims to investigate the security-relevant capabilities of these computer architectures. Their use could lead to new capabilities for security-relevant calculations, such as more efficient encryption. At the same time, however, the question also arises as to whether these technologies will create new security vulnerabilities.
A total of nine months is planned for the project. The results of the preliminary study are to be summarised in the form of a framework, compared and aligned with the security-related requirements of the users. It is then planned to organise a major research competition to investigate the individual architectures on the basis of the results of the preliminary study.
The tender was published in the Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union with the award number 2023-I-076: https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:718794-2023:TEXT:DE:HTML&src=0.
Further information:
https://www.cyberagentur.de/ara
Contact
Michael Lindner
Press Officer of the Cyberagentur
Tel: +49 151 44150 645
Email: presse@cyberagentur.de
Background: Cyberagentur
The Agentur für Innovation in der Cybersicherheit GmbH (Cyberagentur) was founded in 2020 by the Federal Government as a fully in-house company of the Federal Government under the joint leadership of the Federal Ministry of Defence and the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Home Affairs with the goal of taking an application-strategy-related and interdepartmental view of internal and external security in the field of cybersecurity. Against this backdrop, the work of the Cyberagentur is primarily aimed at the institutionalised implementation of highly innovative projects that are associated with a high risk with regard to the achievement of objectives, but at the same time can have a very high disruptive potential if they are successful.
The Cyberagentur is part of the National Security Strategy of the Federal Republic of Germany.
The Cyberagentur is headed by Prof. Dr. Christian Hummert as Research Director and Managing Director and Daniel Mayer as Commercial Director.
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