DARPA Morpheus "Not Solved Puzzle"

2017: The computer which "cannot be cracked"

Michigan State University received in 2017 from the Agency of the advanced defense researches (DARPA) a grant in the amount of $3.6 million for development of the computer which will be impregnable for the hacker attacks at the hardware level^[1].

The idea of the project under the name Morpheus - to make vain any attempts of the attacks on program or computer hardware. Hardware Morpheus component parts will be "not solved puzzle": all information which is contained in a system can be quickly and is randomly redistributed on different components.

As professor of information science of Michigan State University Todd Austin said, attempts to attack Morpheus will be related to attempts to assemble the Rubik's Cube, at the same time "every time when you blink, I will overwind it again".

As specialists of DARPA specify, up to 40% of the program exploits available to hackers, it would be possible to liquidate on a root if there was an opportunity to eliminate several types of especially hardware vulnerabilities connected with cryptography, an injection of the code and information leak.

Austin and his colleagues consider that Morpheus will allow to solve all these problems thanks to the device of its hardware component parts.

Permanent change of dislocation

When the cybermalefactor tries to steal any data from a system, from him it will be required to operate vulnerability in software, and then just to define, where exactly there is valuable data. Usually their location does not change.

The architecture of Morpheus will prevent it as the location of all data will constantly change.

"The similar technology looks is very promising. In fact it is about more advanced version of technology of randomization of an address space applied in modern operating systems, - Dmitry Gvozdev, the CEO of Information Technologies of the Future company says. - The difference is that not only contents of RAM, but in general all data in a system are randomized. If the technology is implemented fully, behind the similar systems - the future. Though weak points, most likely, will be also in them".

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