Stage 3 Unveiled: Meet TARS, the Future of VPN Transparency and Security!

Setting a New Standard for Cryptographically Provable WireGuard Deployments

As we progress to the next phase of our global network deployment, we’re excited to introduce TARS (Transparent Auditable Resilience System). TARS represents a groundbreaking approach to creating cryptographically provable provenance for each server in our network, ensuring full traceability and transparency throughout its lifecycle.

What is TARS?

The core of TARS revolves around two key concepts:

1. Cryptographic Birth Certificate: Every server in the network, upon deployment, receives a cryptographically signed birth certificate. This certificate is a digital fingerprint of the server’s initial state and configuration, published in a public log, ensuring the server’s provenance is both auditable and transparent.

2. Proof-of-Life Hashes: Throughout the server’s operational life, it will periodically generate proof-of-life hashes—cryptographic hashes of its current state—and send them to a public log every hour. This creates an ongoing, publicly verifiable audit trail that guarantees the server’s integrity over time.

Why TARS Matters:

TARS is designed to solve a critical problem: How do we prove that a server, once deployed, remains in its original, trusted state without requiring any external access? The key benefits of TARS include:

• Transparency & Trust: The public logging of cryptographic birth certificates and proof-of-life hashes ensures that the state of any server in the network can be independently verified by anyone. This transparency builds trust, particularly in environments where security and integrity are paramount.

• Traceability: By continuously logging server states to a public register, TARS provides a verifiable audit trail that can be used by security professionals to confirm that a server hasn’t been tampered with.

• Setting a New Standard: TARS aims to be more than just a solution for our own deployment—it sets a new benchmark for WireGuard deployments globally. By offering a provable, cryptographic method of ensuring server integrity, we believe TARS can transform how secure networks are built and maintained.

Collaboration Opportunity:

TARS is an innovative step forward in providing cryptographic transparency for server deployments, but we know there’s more work to do. We invite developers, security professionals, and organizations to collaborate with us on refining and expanding TARS to reach its full potential.

• Join the TARS Project: If you’re interested in contributing, head over to our GitHub page, where you’ll find the white paper outlining our vision and the codebase. We welcome commits, feedback, and feature suggestions as we move forward with this project.

Be a part of the future of network security! By contributing to TARS, you’ll be helping to define a new industry standard for cryptographic transparency in network deployments. Let’s build the future of secure networks together!