ADEM
An Authentic Digital Emblem
The emblems of the red cross, red crescent, and red crystal mark physical infrastructure in times of armed conflict. ADEM extends this protection to digital, network-connected infrastructure through a digital emblem.
An Authentic Digital EMblem (ADEM) is a proposal to implement a digital emblem, analogous to the protective, physical emblems of the red cross, red crescent, and red crystal. ADEM was developed by Felix Linker and David Basin at the Centre for Cyber Trust, a joint research centre between ETH Zurich and the University of Bonn.
Scroll down to learn more about ADEM, for example, get an overview of its features or try it out yourself! You can also browse many of other resources:
- The report on a digital emblem by the ICRC
- The academic paper proposing ADEM
- ADEM's technical specification
- ADEM's GitHub organization, which includes...
Features of ADEM
Distributed
ADEM has no single point of failure. Parties deploy ADEM independently.
Decentralized
ADEM has no central authority. Nations use ADEM fully sovereign.
Works
ADEM requires no updates to the Internet's infrastructure.
Covert Inspection
No one can tell whether you look at emblems.
Accountable
Emblems form irrefutable proof. Misbehavior can be held accountable.
Versatile
Every network-connected asset can be labelled.
Try it yourself!
This website is labelled with ADEM and you can check this using a browser extension.
