NASA Declares Proposal for Air Traffic Management Blockchain to Secure Aircraft

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The National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA), U.S-based, is analyzing blockchain as a means to guarantee the privacy and security of aircraft flight information, according to an official paper published on the agency’s website on Monday.

An Aero-Computer engineer at the NASA Ames Research Center, Ronald Reisman, issued a document on January 7, proposing that distributed ledger technology (DLT) networks and smart contracts can assist some security matters.   

The suggested system would use an open-source permissioned DLT to allow secure, private and more anonymous communication with responsible air traffic services. The paper states:   

“This framework features certificate authority, smart contract support, and higher-bandwidth communication channels for private information that may be utilized for secure communication between any specific aircraft and any specific authorized member.”   

Keeping Sensitive Information Private   
Beginning Wednesday, January 1, 2020, the U.S, has been authorized by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to employ Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast (ADS-B) - a modern surveillance system that will publicly broadcast an aircraft’s identity, altitude & longitude (position) and other important information.   

This has raised a lot of security questions among stakeholders, Ronald revealed in his document, elaborating that the ADS-B system lacks provisions for conserving these same aircraft-privacy alternatives, and also does not address the potential for spoofing, denial of service, and other clearly-documented risk factors.   

Civil aircraft firms would opt to keep some information private, Ronald writes, for instance, to anticipate tracing executives as part of corporate espionage activities.   

Military aircraft traffic data, in the meantime, is defined by the Defense Department as “data that, if revealed, would uncover vulnerabilities in the DoD vital facility and, if used, would probably lead to pregnant disruption, damage or destruction of or to DoD activities, facilities or holdings.”   

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