Law Enforcement Use Case:

Users: Under the direction of the Department of Justice, multiple Drug Enforcement Teams operating under the direction of a Prosecutor's office. Each Team has about 40 members. It is expected there will be about 10 Teams in the initial phase.

Background: Under the direction of the Department of Justice, Prosecutors have assembled cross-department teams of law enforcement officers and prosecutors to pursue known drug operations. Their mission is to eliminate these operations from the lowest distributors on the street to the drug lords who operate several steps removed from the local operations. The Teams are aware that the drug dealers have sophisticated intelligence equipment that allows them to monitor communications between the Team members and their superiors. Since the information may lead to raids as well as arrests and prosecution, the subjects of the investigations are willing to take any steps necessary to know what information the Teams have and to learn what their plans are.

These Drug Enforcement Teams are not considered to be permanent Teams, but will be assembled for a fixed period of time to address a particular drug operation. It is expected that these Teams will be reconstituted on a periodic basis with changing members reflecting the unique requirements of each operation.

The nature of the information includes audio, video, text and images (photos). This information can be stored on CDs, computers or transmitted by email.

Not only is the mission of the Drug Enforcement Teams dependent upon the security and privacy of its operations, their lives and the lives of the witnesses upon whom they rely are also at risk. Security and privacy of this critical mission is truly a matter of life and death. The Drug Enforcement Teams demand absolute unconditional security and privacy.

Challenge: The Drug Enforcement Teams need to protect critical evidence, communications and instructions whether written to CD, transmitted electronically via email, or copied to the hard drive of a laptop computer. The information needs to be absolutely secure even if the email message is intercepted or the CD or laptop fall into the wrong hands.

The Prosecutors also need to reconstitute the Teams by terminating past membership and creating new Teams, as circumstances warrant.

Objective: To ensure that all communication between and all information held by Drug Enforcement Team members is secure and private, now and forever.

Solution: AlphaCipher and AlphaCipher KeyGen

AlphaCipher allows Drug Enforcement Team members to exchange very sensitive information securely and privately. Each Team member receives his or her own storage device containing his or her unique encryption key as well as the unique decryption keys for each other member of the Team. Any available infrastructure can be used for communications between team members with complete confidence that the sensitive data is secure regardless of whether others have access to the email account or how long the messages are stored on their computers. At the same time, the Company has full control over the distribution and authorization associated with that key. Confidential information stored on the Team's laptops will remain secure if the system's passwords are discovered or cracked. In addition, sensitive information stored on the laptops will remain secure even if the laptop is stolen and subjected to the most sophisticated types of exploitation.

AlphaCipher KeyGen allows the Prosecutors to create new Teams each with the same level of absolutely unbreakable encryption.

Harm if this information is compromised: Inestimable
Cost for unbreakable encryption among Team members: < $1,500,000