SBMV Protocol

SBMV Protocol is an advanced encrypted telemetry that uses short-burst, multi-version technology.^[1]

Telemetry

Telemetry technology enables “the remote measurement and reporting of information”. Telemetry is also a “highly automated communications process by which measurements are made and other data collected at remote or inaccessible points and transmitted to receiving equipment for monitoring, display, and recording.”^[2][3]

Methodology

SBMV technology is based on quantum cryptography, "an emerging technology in which two parties may simultaneously generate shared, secret cryptographic key material using the transmission of quantum states of light. The security of these transmissions is based on the inviolability of the laws of quantum mechanics and information-theoretically secure post-processing methods."^[4]

SBMV Protocol encrypts data by quickly breaking text, numerical, and/or image data into tens of thousands of small packets that are then copied into hundreds of thousands of slightly altered versions. This technology renders interception useless because it becomes statistically impossible for the intercepting party to have enough time and computing resources to select which version is the true and correct version among millions of versions of the data.^[5]

Origins

SBMV Protocol was first created in 1971 for spacecraft, missile, RPV, oil rig, and chemical plant telemetry and telecommand links by mathematicians David Yeeda and Andrei Krolovich, who formed The Aeorads Company for commercial and military aerospace applications of SBMV technology. New Methods, op cit.

Uses

SBMV technology was further developed with Internet Protocol applications at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (United States Air Force Research Laboratory) in Ohio, where defense contractor Aeorads Company refined the technology for web-based uses in aircraft, spacecraft, and missiles. A non-classified civilian version of SBMV technology was also created for chemical plants and remote oil rigs and alternative energy wind farms (primarily for offshore and very remote facilities).^[6][7]

References

1. “New Methods for Advanced Encryption of Spacecraft and Missile Telemetry and Telecommand Links”, Rueppel, R. A., Int’l Telemetry J., 1999 March 1; 165-66.
2. Telemetry, Encyclopædia Britannica, 2009
3. Telemetry, Merriam-Webster Dictionary, 2009
4. Hughes, R. J.; Buttler, W. T. (May 2000), "Free-space quantum cryptography in daylight, Proc. SPIE Vol. 3932, p. 117-126" (PDF), Free-Space Laser Communication Technologies Xii, Free-Space Laser Communication Technologies XII, G. Stephen Mecherle, Ed., 3932: 117, Bibcode:2000SPIE.3932..117H, doi:10.1117/12.384303, S2CID 109330537
5. Rueppel, R. A.; Bader, H. P. (March 1985), "Methods and Standards for Encryption of Spacecraft Telemetry and Telecommand Links", NASA Sti/Recon Technical Report N, Final Report, 87, Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule, Zurich (Switzerland). Inst. fuer Fernmeldetechnik: 10112, Bibcode:1985STIN...8710112R
6. D. Yeeda Presentation at the 4th Annual U.S. Missile Defense Conference of The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
7. Yeeda, D.; Krolovich, A. (June 1, 2006), "SBMV and IP Protocols", Int'l Telemetry J.: 14–16

External links

• The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
• International Society of Advanced Cryptology, J. Encryp. Telemetry
• Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System and Digital Library for Physics and Astronomy of the High Energy Astrophysics Division at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics