⚙️ — A distributed Blockchain to break wipers keys : Defuse
Following projects like FACT0RN, that aims to be the PoW (Proof-of-Work) blockchain that is used to do integer factoring on great numbers* during its run, a lot of things could be done.
See more about FACT0RN here.
Such as this project, a distributed blockchain — a national or NGO blockchain — could be built to factor keys or brute-force keys used by hackers' wipers (malwares that lock and destroy all numerical data, which are extremely cost-full and can impact a whole industry).
The idea of a blockchain used to crack wiper keys could be mixed with the following concepts to help a lot of people :
Using a blockchain to book computer time for scientific modelizations, such as this one — here, keeping the idea of booking computer time for a task.
An international research projects, like SETI @Home, see here — there, keeping the idea of a collective interest blockchain.
For a perfect use case, each time a new wiper or locker is found or detected by an antivirus, it could be immediately ruined on this distributed blockchain to find the defusing keys for the machines or the park that have been infected — this, through advanced cryptography technical to brute force, rainbow attack (or else) — to find a breaches in the encoding algorithms used by the hackers. Then, the found keys could be distributed to public and private partners, and freely distributed to the end user (for example by integrating lastly founds defusing keys in Windows Defender).
From an economical sustaining point of view, monetization goes from block bounty to miners when they participate to find a defusing key to selling the found defusing keys to public and private partners as a SaaS (Service-as-a-Service).
* As it turns out, integer factoring is of immense interest to mathematicians and cryptography research. There are academics, professional societies and intelligence programs dedicated to factoring integers. Factorization is the process of breaking down a positive integer into smaller positive integers that are eventually broken down into their smallest factor, which are prime factors.
For example, factorizing 52 : 52 = 2 * 2 * 13