Innovation promises new online privacy technology

NZ No. 8 Wire innovation promises new online privacy technology.



The Wellington-based DART Privacy Project announces that it has successfully developed a new Internet privacy technology (“DART”) which revolutionises privacy on the Internet. DART technology protects online content from interception and cloud server hacking. DART is fundamentally different from encryption.

DART is based on US patent 6,414,610 held by DART project leader, Rod Smith (BA, BSc, MSc) who has lived in Wellington since 1980. In the early 1980s, he wrote New Zealand's first officially sanctioned computer software tax package, and since then has developed in Wellington other leading-edge software applications.

“DART is completely different from and safer than encryption”, Smith says. “The original can always be recovered from an encrypted intercept, but with DART the original can never be recovered from an intercept”.

With DART there are no passwords, and there is automatic authentication. A DART transmission comprises addresses of places inside a “dictionary” data structure. The dictionary is external to the address stream. Only the address stream is transmitted. An intercept of the address stream is useless without the dictionary.

The DART Project began shortly after Edward Snowden's 2013 revelations of secret mass collection of private online information, and that encryption is not as safe as once thought. DART products under development are designed to place control of privacy in the hands of the individual, community and business and to take it away from Internet intermediaries such as Google, Yahoo, Apple and Microsoft. DART technology can be embodied in zip-like applications, chat apps, email clients, cloud storage apps, and most other types of cloud applications.

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