The NSA (National Security Agency) has developed a phone Android that meets the criteria of "Top Secret" with off the shelf components. Nicknamed the fish jar phone, 100 units have been constructed and deployed by the IAD (Information Assurance Directorate) and the division chief Margaret Salter said that anyone can recreate the phones using the specifications published on the site of the NSA.
The plan was to buy commercial components, their whole layer and obtain a secure solution. It uses commercial infrastructure only to protect classified data.
-Head of the Department of IAD Margaret Salter
The new phones, which have even their own secure business application store, mean that users have more to talk about in the code, when talking about the secrets of the Government. Using IPSEC VPNand voice sessions have use Datagram Transport Layer Security and secure real-time Transport Protocol means that calls are private, and it was published because Salter believes that the specifications for security voice application would be useful to all. Voice calls are encrypted in twice, and all pass through Enterprise NAS servers to maintain control and to protect the communications between the parties concerned.
It appears that the choice of components has been a little difficult, and Salter invite colleagues to "sellers request to improve the interoperability of unified communications. Copies of parts ' t chosen by the brand and instead, were chosen for the way they have supported the required functionality. This means that part of a vendor should work with part of an another vendor, which proved difficult. None of the compromises that had to be reduced the security of the phone. In addition, a PPA "police" was designed to monitor all operations of the device where a part has been compromised.
' Top secret Droid.
Source: SC Magazine; Thank you, DenverRalphy!
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