BLINK: Securing Information to the Last Connection

Robust cryptography provides confidentiality and integrity for information transferred between peers. However, the decrypted plaintext in the memory of a receivers´ computer is vulnerable - both to surveillance at the endpoints, and users who choose to forward confidential information. In this paper, we proposed a novel scheme called BLINK, which uses a reconfigurable hardware based decoder which operates on the link between a computer and its display. It moves the decryption outside the computer, preventing plaintext stealing, forwarding, screen capture and printing. Currently we are implementing the BLINK scheme on top of Altera FPGA board with Digital Visual Interface (DVI) ports, the correctness, effectiveness, and the performance will be evaluated through experiment.