Jay Clemens
The research subsidiary of Vencore has been awarded a $3.7 million contract to develop cryptographic obfuscation techniques for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Vencore Labs will work with the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Raytheon‘s BBN Technologies subsidiary to create program obfuscation methods designed to protect software from reverse engineering attacks under DARPA’s SafeWare program, Vencore said Friday.
“This research will focus on enabling highly secure, highly efficient techniques that meet real-world applications and are most relevant to the Defense Department in defending programs against reverse engineering attacks,” said Steve Omick, president of Vencore Labs.
Omick added that the research work aims to help clients defend “against those types of attacks.”
DARPA and Vencore’s team aim to build on the team’s previous collaboration on protocols for privacy-preserving computation and homomorphic encryption under DARPA’s Programming Computation on Encrypted Data program and Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity’s Security and Privacy Assurance Research program.
Vencore Labs launched in mid-2014 and was formed out of the Applied Communications Sciences business, which Vencore acquired in 2013.
