Blockchain-based protocol for cyber resilience.
TEP: Secure Communication
Backed by Blockchain
- Distributed Identity Layer: dynamically generates sender and recipient addresses via a blockchain ledger, ensuring verifiable authenticity.
- Multi-Layer Encapsulation: encrypts not only message content but also transport and application layers using a proprietary method.
- Directed Encrypted Delivery: selects the destination node using hashed identifiers, securely routing traffic over a decentralized mesh network.
- Integrity-Verified Reception: the receiving node authenticates message integrity, verifies address matching, and decrypts each layer to reconstruct the payload.
TEP in action
- TEP ensures ultra-fast packet delivery (under one millisecond) even across encrypted and encapsulated channels.
- Maintains high performance without hardware acceleration, even with full OSI stack encapsulation.
- Outperforms legacy VPN and TLS stacks in real-time scenarios, especially latency-sensitive applications.
- Designed and tested for resource-constrained environments—no dependency on cloud infrastructure or external components.
- Supports real-world use cases such as encrypted communication from sensor to gateway in decentralized, dynamic mesh networks.
- Proven security without sacrificing throughput or latency.
TEP: high throughput and low latency
TEP vs. conventional protocols: what sets us apart
- Protocol depth
- Full-stack encryption: not just data, but also metadata, routing, and identity
- System-level encapsulation: full coverage of OSI layers 1 through 7
- Trust model
- Blockchain-native identity: eliminates the need for PKI, DNS, or static IPs
- Integrated trustless routing: no overlays, no VPN tunnels
- Edge resilience
- Immunity to DDoS, spoofing, and MITM attacks: no exposed attack surface
- Deployable offline, in air-gapped environments or degraded connectivity scenarios
- Native AI control
- Designed for integration with Machine Learning: automatic anomaly response and adaptive routing.
Validation, Adoption, and Investment
- TRL 4 – Core components validated in test environments
- Active POCs with defense and government to validate performance in critical scenarios
- €1 million in funding awarded by the Italian National Military Research Program
- NATO-access certification (CAGE and SAM registration) for eligibility in allied defense procurement
- 5 patents covering protocol, encryption methods, and trustless transport
- Founding team composed of experts with backgrounds in cyber intelligence and field operations
Transport Encrypted Protocol (TEP)
''The part of the project concerning the specific communication routing methodology through the TEP protocol was funded under the ''Brevetti +'' program with funds from the European Union NextGenerationEU''
CLP: BRE 0001323
CUP: C89|23000070008
''Project for the valorization of patent no. IT102020000014518''
Patent no. IT102020000014518 aims to protect an invention related to a communication method between nodes of a telecommunications network capable of using a graph database to route transmissions within a distributed node network. This specific methodology is part of the broader TEP project, a Telco and Data communication protocol that applies the blockchain paradigm to telecommunications.