Value, money, goods, and services are exchanged in the United States via electronic communication -- ever more so. The software piles on (much of it outsourced and poorly checked), the exchange protocols evolve daily (folding in them numerous security cracks), the dependence on a single central transaction authorization computer is escalating, the old horses of encryption (RSA, DES, AES) may have secretly succumbed to mathematical assault -- our vulnerability creeps up, and we should be on the alert, and take steps to meet this strategic threat.

This page is a call for organizing the various individuals and companies involved in digital transactions, mindful of the strategic threat, and ready to help think out the issue. We all should come up with specific threat scenarios, rate them, rank them, and then devise solution ideas. The identified solutions will guide individual companies in protecting themselves and their clients, as well as develop national recommendations to be aired before the national institutions charged with protecting us in this dangerous world with its asymmetric war prospects.

You are cordially invited to: