Basic Network Pump with Data Diodes

Politehnica University of Timisoara -- internal grant SACER2023

Research Contract no. 65/4.01.2023

The NRL Network Pump:

Image source: Myong H. Kang, Ira S. Moskowitz, and Stanley Chincheck. 2005. The Pump: A Decade of Covert Fun. In Proceedings of the 21st Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC '05). IEEE Computer Society, USA, 352-360. https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA462184.pdf

The NRL pump

BANPUMP:

The BANPUMP

Fully assembled

4U rackable

Project duration:

January 2023 -- December 2024

Description

A cybersecurity network appliance for critical infrastructure protection (the NRL Network Pump is a bidirectional communication device for one-way information flow). We are building a different model using data diodes.

Publications

@article{Anton2024, title = {Enhancing Syslog Message Security and Reliability over Unidirectional Fiber Optics}, author = {Anton, A.-A., Csereoka, P., Capota, E.-A. and Cioarga, R.-D.}, journal = {Sensors}, volume = {24}, year = {2024}, article-number = {6537}, url = {https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/24/20/6537}, issn = {1424-8220}, doi = {10.3390/s24206537}} Q2

@article{Anton2025, title = {SIMECK-T: An Ultra-Lightweight Encryption Scheme for Resource-Constrained Devices}, author = {Anton, A.-A., Csereoka, P., Capota, E.-A. and Cioarga, R.-D.}, journal = {Applied Sciences}, volume {15}, year = {2025}, article-number = {1279}, url = {https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/15/3/1279}, issn = {2076-3417}} Q1

@article{Anton2025b, title = {Free Plug-and-Play Cross Domain Solution for Moving Data from Low to High}, author = {Anton, A.-A.}, url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14911628}}

@article{Anton2025c, title = {Cross-Domain Solution for Secure Tamper-Proof Logging}, author = {Anton, A.-A.}, url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14934842}}

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Project director: Dr. Eng. Alin-Adrian Anton

Project members:

  • Dr.Eng. Razvan Cioarga
  • Drd.Eng. Petra Csereoka
  • Dr.Eng. Eugenia Capota
  • Drd.Eng. Bianca Gusita
  • Catalin Cereanu (student)
  • Honu Andrei (student)

    • We gratefully acknowledge Paul Savoiu for contributing to the assembly of the network pump.

    Github page:

    BANPUMP-team on Github