A New Kind of Hidden Networking Science

Excerpt:  “In support of internet freedom efforts and the protection of U.S. armed forces, DARPA invests in the development of technologies that provide confidence in the information domain, including the delivery of electronic messages in many forms and with various gradations of observability. Specifically, the agency’s Information Innovation Office (I2O) has funded research and development on protecting, detecting attacks on, and measuring the health of this domain, broadly construed. I2O’s latest program, Provably Weird Network Deployment and Detection (PWND), will continue that legacy. Building off the success of the program Resilient Anonymous Communication for Everyone (RACE), which recently released its code on GitHub, PWND will develop formal models of emergent communication pathways (AKA weird networks) to fundamentally improve the deployment and detection of robust and resilient hidden networks.” (footnotes omitted)