Cybersecurity for Nuclear Arms Control Monitoring

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) Computing Sciences Research performs extensive research and development in nuclear arms control monitoring and safeguards. In recent years, this work has been funded largely via National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation. These projects include collaborations with academic and National Lab partners.

Learn more at the LBNL Cybersecurity for Nuclear Arms Control Monitoring and Safeguards R&D Web Site.

A partial listing of current and recent R&D projects relating to cybersecurity for nuclear arms control monitoring and safeguards, including lists of partners, publications, and software developed is as follows:

Using Fuzz Testing to Detect Software Tampering. This project aims verify that software operating on arms control monitoring equipment is within agreed parameters. It is funded by the National Nuclear Security Administration Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation Research and Development and is led by Sean Peisert. See NA-22 Fuzzing project website.
Data Enclaves for ecure Computing. This project will develop secure computation architectures to ensure trustworthiness of data while addressing the gaps left by existing solutions for scientific workflows to address the specific power, performance, and usability, and needs of scientific computing from the edge to the HPC center and for nuclear treaty assurance. It is led by Sean Peisert, Venkatesh Akella, and Jason Lowe-Power. See DESC project website.

Past projects include the following:

Reliable Multicast for Continuous Data Transmission for Nuclear Treaty Verification. This project examined the use of reliable multicast communication protocols, including for the Comprehensive test Ban Treaty. See Reliable Multicast project website.

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