Fujitsu published a white paper on the concept of "Trust-Enhanced Networking", which enhances trust in cyberspace with physical attributes of the real world.
December 12, 2022
Japanese
Fujitsu published a new whitepaper that outlines the "Trust-Enhanced Networking" concept of enhancing trustworthiness of business and social activities in cyberspace by providing physical attributes of the real world as endorsements through networks that connect cyberspace and the real world. Along with the spread of metaverses and Web3, business and social activities are shifting to cyberspace. It is necessary to introduce additional information that serves as evidence of the trustworthiness of activities in order to build relationships with various stakeholders in cyberspace. In the "Trust-Enhanced Networking" concept, entities interacting in cyberspace using digital avatars or identifiers, are complemented with their corresponding physical attributes provided by the network to enhance trustworthiness of activities in cyberspace.
Going forward, Fujitsu will continue to develop network-centric trust technology based on the concept. We'll go for social implementation of the concept by collaboration with universities and partners and by participating in related standards organizations.
Background
With the spread of metaverse and Web3, all kinds of business and social activities will be shifted from real-centric to digital-centric and will be conducted in cyberspace. All companies and organizations around the world will operate in cyberspace and building relationships with diverse stakeholders across the world will become more important. In order to build relationships with new stakeholders in cyberspace, physical attributes of entities of cyberspace will become indispensable. Focusing on networks that are necessary for connecting cyberspace and real world, we summarized the concept of " Trust-Enhanced Networking " that brings trustworthiness to cyberspace through the verification of physical attributes in real world as a new role of networks.
About Trust-Enhanced Networking
Traditionally, networks have been primarily responsible for transporting data. However, we believe that networks should have a new role for enhancing trustworthiness in cyberspace by connecting cyberspace and real world and presenting physical attributes as evidence of trustworthiness of activities and transactions in cyberspace. In the concept of "Trust-Enhanced Networking", the physical attributes of entities in cyberspace, such as digital data and avatars in cyberspace are verified by networks. Examples of physical attributes here includes location of source and destination of transferred data. It is also possible to control communication based on the verified physical attributes, which will enhance the trustworthiness of communications as well as that of activities in cyberspace.
Future Initiatives
We will develop technologies to realize the "Trust-Enhanced Networking" concept. In addition, we will promote technical collaboration with “Trustable Internet”(*1), a concept that enables verification of the authenticity of data on the Internet, about which we published a press release on 13th Dec 2022. We will facilitate these developments by working with universities and partners with network and security expertise, such as Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel(*2), with whom collaborations have already started. Furthermore, we will participate in standards organizations to standardize the protocols and other technologies that are necessary to implement the concept.
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