DARPA Seeks Blockchain Messaging System for Battlefield Use

DARPA Seeks Blockchain Messaging System for Battlefield Use

A major US defense agency devoted to advanced R&D is seeking to create a secure, blockchain-based messaging system. Disclosure of the still-theoretical system, comes courtesy of a notice posted to the website of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DAPRA), an office in the US Department of Defense (DoD) that has long played a role in promoting emerging technologies. Among the more famous DARPA projects as ARPANET, a predecessor of today’s Internet. According to the notice, DARPA is seeking pitches for a "secure messaging system" that would use a "decentralized....


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