- Surfshark seeks to improve the confidentiality of current encryption from start to finish with a new patent
- The plan is currently based on communication frameworks based on distributed confidence
- Despite this, Surfshark says that his approach differs from the tastes of Nymvpn and Obscuravpn
Surfshark has just recorded a new patent seeking to improve the confidentiality of current end -to -end (E2E) encryption systems.
Based on a communication infrastructure based on distributed trust, the proposed surfhark method aims to reduce the quantity of visible metadata – which means all data that is not the content – by dividing the encryption process between two separate VPN suppliers.
Encryption refers to the jamming of data in an illegible form and is the technical solution born to protect communications based on the network on which we all count daily – whether it is a text message, a document or a photo shared with another user on the Internet.
End -to -end encryption (E2E) is the technology used by virtual private networks (VPN), certain secure messaging services and messaging platforms to guarantee the content of these online activities remains private between the sender and the receiver.
Many metadata are always visible for the supplier
Karolis Kaciulis, surfhark
However, the engineer of the main system of surfhark, Karolis Kaciulis, thinks that it is time to go beyond the E2E.
He told Techradar: “After the emergence of E2E encryption, we believe that the subject of anonymity and user safety while using various messaging and technology systems stagnated. We think there is still room for improvement.”
The main problem with today’s encrypted messages, explains Kaciulis is that even if these messages are not accessible by unwanted third parties, “many metadata are always visible for the supplier”.
The metadata include details such as which sent a message to which, when the message was sent, the size of the message and many others.
This is where the new Surfhark patent comes into play. Based on a confidence -based communication framework, he seeks to introduce a new way for VPN suppliers to manage encryption and decentralize the property of the message.
Such a framework would imply two different VPN companies Manage the encryption process so that no entity had all the information in its entirety.
“The patented method would ensure that the information is divided,” said the patented inventor. “Thus, the metadata seen by supplier companies (as well as the governments where they reside) is reduced.”
Do not call it decentralized VPN
It should be mentioned that some suppliers already offer decentralized VPN solutions that divide user information between several entities without having a single governance point.
For example, the newly launched NYMVPN is built on a network of decentralized servers executed by anonymous users around the world. Obscura VPN uses a bipartite VPN structure, using the WIREGUARD VPN in Mullvad as an output hop.
Kaciulis, however, thinks that the Surfhark patent goes beyond a decentralized VPN represents.
“Personally, I believe that today, the” decentralized VPN “is a bit of a fashionable word used to convince users that it is a better solution than the status quo. Internet is built on confidence and authority, and the loss of said authority only makes it less safe,” Kaciulis told Techradar.
Consequently, this solution is a way to highlight the importance of having even more authority. “It’s just that authority is shared between several actors instead of one.”
