Discover NGI Innovations

So far, the NGI has funded more than 1000 innovators with inclusive and trust-based complementary technology building blocks. It includes services, applications, decentralised ledger technologies such as blockchain, data portability, AI, machine learning, networking, and open-source software and hardware.
Projects cover a broad range of subjects from private search, instant messaging and remote working tools with data privacy, health, energy, finance, supply chains, research, knowledge management and responsible media platforms.

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trustworthy hardware and manufacturing
network infrastructure (including routing, peer-to-peer and virtual private networking)
software engineering, protocols, interoperability, cryptography, algorithms, proofs
operating systems, firmware and virtualisation
measurement, monitoring, analysis and abuse handling
middleware and identity (including dns, authorisation, authentication, reputation systems, distribution and deployment, operations)
decentralized solutions (including blockchain and distributed ledger technologies)
data and machine learning
services and applications (for example email, instant messaging, video chat, collaboration, cloud storage)
vertical use cases, improving search and discovery and community building

0KNOW

https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.13350

Categorymiddleware and identity (including dns, authorisation, authentication, reputation systems, distribution and deployment, operations) , software engineering, protocols, interoperability, cryptography, algorithms, proofs ,

Synopsis

Group Theoretic Zero-knowledge Proofs (0KNOW)

5G Open RAN evolution based on OpenAirInterface

https://ngiatlantic.eu/funded-experiments/experimental-validation-5g-open-ran-architecture-evolution-based

Categorynetwork infrastructure (including routing, peer-to-peer and virtual private networking) , software engineering, protocols, interoperability, cryptography, algorithms, proofs ,

Synopsis

Experimental validation of 5G Open RAN architecture evolution based on OpenAirInterface. OpenAirInterface project is the leading open-source initiative that provides a reference implementation of 5G which is standard-compliant with 3GPP Release 15.

A proof of concept of identity-based encryption

https://privacybydesign.foundation/en

Synopsis

Make encryption simpler

A Secret Key Store for Sequoia PGP

https://sequoia-pgp.org

Categorydecentralized solutions (including blockchain and distributed ledger technologies) , middleware and identity (including dns, authorisation, authentication, reputation systems, distribution and deployment, operations) , software engineering, protocols, interoperability, cryptography, algorithms, proofs ,

Synopsis

Standards-compliant private key store for OpenPGP

Accessible security

https://insurgo.ca/

Categorynetwork infrastructure (including routing, peer-to-peer and virtual private networking) , operating systems, firmware and virtualisation , software engineering, protocols, interoperability, cryptography, algorithms, proofs ,

Synopsis

Integration effort of independent security efforts like Qubes, Heads, coreboot, etc

Adding TPM Support to Sequoia PGP

https://sequoia-pgp.org/

Categorymiddleware and identity (including dns, authorisation, authentication, reputation systems, distribution and deployment, operations) , operating systems, firmware and virtualisation , software engineering, protocols, interoperability, cryptography, algorithms, proofs ,

Synopsis

Implement use of TPM 2.0 crypto hardware for OpenPGP

Adding Web-of-Trust Support to PGPainless

https://pgpainless.org

Synopsis

Web-of-Trust specification support for Java

Aiohttp type checking

https://docs.aiohttp.org/en/stable

Categorysoftware engineering, protocols, interoperability, cryptography, algorithms, proofs ,

Synopsis

Improve typechecking for Aiohttp HTTP Client/Server framework

ALIAS

https://dapsi.ngi.eu/hall-of-fame/alias/

Categorysoftware engineering, protocols, interoperability, cryptography, algorithms, proofs ,

Synopsis

ALIAS enables the next generation of applications to happen, by automating GDPR portability for applications developers.

Alive2

https://github.com/AliveToolkit/alive2/

Categorysoftware engineering, protocols, interoperability, cryptography, algorithms, proofs ,

Synopsis

Translation validation for LLVM

AnonymAI

https://www.celi.it/en/blog/2020/11/anonymai-rd-project-legal-compliant-text-and-voice-anonymization-through-artificial-intelligence/

Categorysoftware engineering, protocols, interoperability, cryptography, algorithms, proofs ,

Synopsis

to provide a service that allows the automatic anonymization and protection of user personal data contained in texts and voice transcriptions in compliance with the applicable legal framework

Ari

https://gitlab.com/ari-lang/ari

Categorysoftware engineering, protocols, interoperability, cryptography, algorithms, proofs ,

Synopsis

Purely functional programming language designed to “type” binary files

ARPA2 LDAP Middleware

http://arpa2.net/

Synopsis

Privacy enhancing middleware

Assesment of Fast Quantum Key Distribution

https://ngiatlantic.eu/funded-experiments/experimental-assessment-fast-quantum-key-distribution

Categorysoftware engineering, protocols, interoperability, cryptography, algorithms, proofs ,

Synopsis

A novel Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) method that includes an Artificial Intelligence (AI) -based polarization distortion compensator module (named Fast QKD) is to be experimented on, in a testbed at UCDavis California.

Atomic Data

https://dapsi.ngi.eu/hall-of-fame/place-the-open-personal-knowledge-server/

Categorysoftware engineering, protocols, interoperability, cryptography, algorithms, proofs ,

Synopsis

Atomic Data is a modular specification for sharing, modifying and modeling graph data. It combines the ease of use of JSON, the connectivity of RDF (linked data) and the reliability of type-safety.

Authenticated DNSSEC bootstrapping

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-thomassen-dnsop-dnssec-bootstrapping/

Categorysoftware engineering, protocols, interoperability, cryptography, algorithms, proofs ,

Synopsis

Secure in-band announcements of DNSSEC parameters

Autocrypt for Thunderbird

https://autocrypt.org

Categorymiddleware and identity (including dns, authorisation, authentication, reputation systems, distribution and deployment, operations) , services and applications (for example email, instant messaging, video chat, collaboration, cloud storage) , software engineering, protocols, interoperability, cryptography, algorithms, proofs ,

Synopsis

Make email encryption extremely simple

Back to source: trust but verify all the packages

https://aboutcode.org

Synopsis

Analysis pipeline for mapping and cross-referencing binaries with source code

Based

https://dapsi.ngi.eu/hall-of-fame/based/

Categorysoftware engineering, protocols, interoperability, cryptography, algorithms, proofs ,

Synopsis

Based is a data platform that helps developers build and iterate fast with no trade-offs. A scalable real time graph database focused on developer experience. It as an open source solution that you can run anywhere on any cloud.

BDI

https://dapsi.ngi.eu/hall-of-fame/bdi/

Categorysoftware engineering, protocols, interoperability, cryptography, algorithms, proofs ,

Synopsis

The proposed system will allow end-users viewing the biometric file format structure along with the metadata stored in it, such as name and date of capture.