DNA Encryption
DNA as a Medium for Data Storage:
Evolution chose DNA as the information carrier for living organisms on earth for a reason. Synthetic DNA exhibits incredible information density, allowing for significantly more data to be encoded vs. traditional data storage methods. Researchers were successful encoding an entire encyclopedia in DNA.
DNA Encryption and Decryption:
Hide information in DNA is not new. Secret messages can be routinely embedded in DNA and subsequently retrieved. The innovation brought forward by HelixShield is the ability to encode hidden information in DNA then decipher the hidden information in a few seconds.
Effortless and Fast:
To be authenticated, a user inserts a token into a token reader after connecting his/her smartphone with the token reader. A few seconds later, the user is logged in.
Security that Scales:
A significant benefit of incredible information density in DNA is the easiness to scale. Unique DNA can be easily selected for each client so that there is no chance of cross talk: a token reader of company A can’t read a token issued to company B, period.
Reducing Costs and Eliminating Headaches:
Information stored in DNA requires no energy to maintain, forgoing the usual overhead costs associated with current data storage technology, and no mechanical failure to worry about.
Quantum Computing-proof:
Despite its huge potential in crunching numbers, quantum computing alone can’t break DNA encryption. Hackers have to gather data in biology labs to systematically examine the endless possibilities.
A Modern, Universal, Multi-Factor Authentication:
High Throughput Biology offers synthetic DNA-based passwordless multi-factor authentication, protecting against all cyber-security threats including phishing, spoofing, and man-in-the-middle attacks. A modern, universal, multi-factor authentication platform is the single best way to guarantee a secure IT network, and protect user credentials without hindering productivity.
Easy to Implement
HelixShield can be deployed as a standalone solution to secure mission-critical IT systems or as an add-on to a comprehensive cybersecurity solution.
Impossible to Hack
Because of the tight integration among token, token reader, app, and blockchain, the HelixShield technology is robust to breach of a single component if it ever happens.
Three Factor Authentication
HelixShield represents a new class of cybersecurity technologies that combine the power of DNA technology and digital technology.
Non-fungible Hardware Token
Synthetic DNA that encodes digital information is stored in a miniature token. The information is user-specific, unique, hidden, and immutable.
Token Reader
A small device that is placed next to the IT system it protects and reveals data in a non-fungible hardware token in seconds.
Smartphone App
The smartphone app binds a specific device to an authorized user. The app works with the token reader to authenticate tokens.