In what is said to be the biggest technological advance and change since worm drive, today President Windscorpion announced Fractal Encrypted Communications or FEC. Windy said that FEC would underpin all NS communications and operations within 5 years and would be impossible to break or hack (although in a more detailed briefing Dr Forbidden said virtually impossible).
FEC will use fractal algorithms to encrypt data using chaos theory. Rolling out FEC will take a number of years (and is expected to cost at least 15 billion zarks). Windy said FEC would be rolled out in a number of phases, work on phase 1 would begin before the end of the year.
Phase 1 : data / comms links between all NS bases, space ports and front line warships. This is expected to take about a year.
Phase 2 : all other NS communication nodes (down to field radios) will have adaptors fitted so they can use FEC without other modification or replacement. The interface between the adaptor and the rest of the system will be a weak point but this will be a necessary stop-gap. This is expected to take about 2 years.
Phase 3 : all NS communications to be fully FEC. In most cases this will require new equipment and will be rolled out during normal upgrade cycles were possible. This will take around 5 years at least.
Phase 4 : UNP communications will also be migrated to FEC, a longer term project not part of the current plan. UNP/NS military data is covered in Phase 2.
Windy said that once NS has completed rolling out FEC then the days of info-attacks and hacking will be over giving NS a big advantage over it's rivals.
