Cellcrypt Solutions for the Military and Armed Forces

Cellcrypt Solutions for the Armed Forces

Secure and Easy Information Sharing from Barracks to Battlefield

Secure and Easy Information Sharing from Barracks to BattlefieldToday’s military requires agile information sharing capabilities in support of diverse peacetime and active operations at home and abroad spanning from headquarters to the front line, that often also involves multiple organizations outside of their standard secure communications networks. The need for interoperability and information sharing at the tactical level also now extends beyond allied military forces to include aid agencies, NGO’s and other non-military organizations

Communications at higher levels of classification are often protected using specialized communications equipment but frequently there is not the time, suitable environment or equipment available to use secure equipment for communications at lower – but still sensitive – levels of classification. When time-sensitive, mission-critical military objectives need to be achieved (such as unconventional missions, multi-national and multi-agency operations), often the most practical mechanism available for communications is to use the public phone network. Even unclassified planning, administrative and personal communications are extremely valuable to adversaries especially when intercepted and analyzed by trained intelligence specialists.

Mobile communications over these public networks leave the transmitted information extremely vulnerable to attack. As the leading provider of encrypted mobile phone voice calling, Cellcrypt’s cost-effective, easy-to-use software solutions enable secure communications wherever and whenever required. Around the world, Cellcrypt’s highly scalable and rapidly deployable solutions leverage commercial-off-the-shelf mobile phones to provide unmatched levels of security.

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  • Secure communications on mobile phones for the armed forcesGives a secure communications capability to all personnel that is interoperable and covert
  • Highly scalable and quickly deployable anywhere in the world on commercial off-the-shelf mobile phones with no need for provision and control of specialized hardware
  • Enables secure mobile communications between different groups
  • Provides for agile information sharing in support of time-sensitive military operations
  • Secures unclassified communications including personal, leave and welfare calls
  • Meets important government security certifications including the US National Institute of Standards and Technology’s FIPS-140-2
  • NEW: Cellcrypt Mobile Baseline™ for BlackBerry® is in UK CESG CAPS evaluation. Click for press release.

Operating System

  • AndroidTM
  • BlackBerry®
  • iOS
  • Symbian S60 (Nokia E-Series, N-Series devices)
     

Any IP-enabled network, e.g.

  • GSM/CDMA
  • 2G
  • 3G
  • 4G
  • Satellite
  • Wi-Fi™

Cellcrypt uses standard encryption technologies including:

  • Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) for symmetric encryption
  • Elliptic-Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) for digital signatures
  • Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH) for key agreement
  • Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA) for message digest

In addition, before these algorithms are processed, Cellcrypt uses additional algorithms for added security (double-wrapping). For example, the voice call is first encrypted using RC4-256 bit and then encrypted again using AES-256 bit.

Public Cryptography
(2048-bit RSA, & ECDSA, ECDH using curves with 384-bit prime moduli)
RSA and ECDSA are used for authentication. The key pairs are generated on the phone during the installation and are unique to each phone. A private key is never shared. The Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH) and RSA algorithms are used for key exchange. The session key is only valid for one phone call and securely destroyed after use.

Symmetric Cryptography
(AES & RC4, both 256 bits)
Both encryption algorithms are used at the same time. The data packet is first encrypted with RC4 and the cipher text is then encrypted again with AES in Counter Mode (CTR). Both algorithms are initialized with the exchanged session keys.

Hashing Algorithms
(SHA512)
Industry standard hashing algorithms are used for increased integrity assurance.

Random Number Generation
A 2048 bit seed pool is generated during the installation and is periodically updated. The initial seed is derived from the microphone input.