Main Publications and Research Documents

Research initiatives and proposals, and academic papers, mostly conceived and coordinated by TCA Executive Director Rufo Guerreschi and formally participated by public and private R&D partners with unique expertise in their fields. (Some R&D proposal were submitted under Trustless Computing Association previous name, before 2018, Open Media Cluster):

• 01/2024 Open Call for the Harnessing AI Risk Initiative (v.1).
  (a 650-words stating the essence of the Inititiave, open for undersigning by all)

• 01/2024 Harnessing AI Risk Proposal (v.3).
  (a 33-pager, published in pre-print on ResearchGate, Webpage and pdf)
  Describes the Harnessing AI Risk Initiative in detail, and setting a framework for co-design of the Initiative with advisors, partners and participants of the 1st Harnessing AI Risk Summit.

• 09/2023, Harnessing AI Risk Proposal (v.2)
  (a 16-pager paper, published in pre-print on ResearchGate pdf)

• 6/2023, Harnessing AI Risk Proposal (v.1)
  (a 17-pager linkedin post and blog-post/PDF, that launched our Harnessing AI Risk Initiative during a UN panel organized by the Community of Democracies).

• 7/2021, NSO Group, State-grade Hacking and the Future of Digital Privacy, Security and Freedom for High-profile Law-abiding Persons
  (a White Paper aimed at approximates the most likely actual number of high-profile individuals and leaders that are hacked on their mobile devices via state-grade targeted hacking tools)

• 11/2020, Calls for lawful access mechanisms, the need for much better IT security, and the Trustless Computing Certification Body initiative.
  (a long blog post that details in historical context our novel approach to ultra-secure IT for communications and its legitimate lawful access)

• 04/2018,  Position Paper –  Case for a Trustless Computing Certification Body.
  (a 43-pager paper pdf published as pre-print on ResearchGate. Fruit of 3 years of work, and dozens of contributors, it makes a formal case for the technical feasibility and public benefit of creating such a certification body and a compliant open ecosystem.)

• On 4/2016, we submitted a 4M€ proposal to H2020 DS-01-2016 RIA (113-page PDF) titled “TRUSTLESS socio-technical systems for ultra-high assurance ICT certifications, and a compliant open target architecture, life-cycle and ecosystem, for critical societal use cases and consumer adoption“. Included an ultra-resilient binding conditional MoU among key R&D partners including licensing, patenting and non-compete under Swiss law.

• On 4/2016, we submitted a 1M€ proposal to H2020 DS-01-2016 CSA (80-page PDF) to build the Certification Body, titled: “TRUSTLESS: Facilitating the evolution to uniquely comprehensive and comparable certification of ICT services and lifecycles“.

• On 2/2016, a 2nd version of “Free and Safe in Cyberspace – Aims and Backgrounder” was published by Rufo Guerreschi and Jovan Golic (PDF).

• On 10/2015, we made a draft proposal titled User Verified E-Government (44-page PDF), which added to the CivicPod and CivicDock, the concepts of CivicCard (a more secure digital ID card) and CivicKiosk, a kiosk for e-services with the security of the CivicPod that could be used by citizens to deal with sensitive e-services from, public, postal office or pharmacies. 

• On 7/2015, in advance of our 1st Edition of the Free and Safe in Cyberspace conference, we published the 1st version of the Position Paper for a Trustless Computing Certification Body, in the form of a long blog post titled “Trustless Computing: a proposal for an international certification body for highest-assurance IT and lawful access systems (1st draft)“

• On 9/2015, we submitted a 4M€ proposal to H2020 FET-Open (44-page PDF): “ Trustless socio­technical systems for trustworthy critical computing and organizations”

• Review here several long-form blog post for more.