A KGreen defence whitepaper on KVault — US Patented Encrypt & Split
From tethered assets to decentralised swarms — a data-security backbone for defence, public safety and critical-infrastructure UAS operations.
The shift from single, tethered drones to decentralised autonomous swarms demands a new data-security model. Drone-captured intelligence — imagery, telemetry, biometrics and evidence — is high-value and highly exposed. KVault makes the data itself secure: encrypted, fragmented and spread across independent nodes, so that intercepting a stream or seizing a device yields nothing recoverable.
Standard SD cards and flash memory are easily extracted and read by unauthorised parties after a crash or theft.
Live video telemetry can be intercepted via RF sniffing without enterprise-grade fragmentation.
Critical-infrastructure and public-safety operations must meet stringent data-sovereignty and integrity standards (GDPR / FAA / DPDP).
Post-flight data tampering remains a major concern for legal and forensic evidence collected during surveillance.
Incoming data is encrypted and split into segments — each independently AES-256 GCM encrypted — then spread across separate storage nodes.
No single storage node holds recoverable data — breach of one node yields nothing. Reassembly requires all segments plus authenticated KVault authorisation.
Data is split & spread through a firmware hook — shattered at the manufacturing level, before it ever forms a file.
Eliminates the concept of a data file — bad actors encounter a pattern-free noise field, not structured data.
Automated, continuous audit trails for every fragmented data movement.
An intercepted or seized segment is pure ciphertext — zero intelligence without the full quorum and KVault authorisation.
Drone-captured ISR data — electro-optical, infrared imagery and SAR feeds — is classified defence intelligence. KVault splits each object across distributed nodes, so no single node holds a reconstructable fragment, eliminating single-point exfiltration.
Post-mission raw data — mission logs, sensor data, crew identifiers and target coordinates — constitutes sensitive defence records subject to retention mandates and classification controls. KVault provides cryptographically secured archival with access tied to role and clearance.
Drone footage used in criminal proceedings must satisfy chain-of-custody and integrity requirements. Unprotected footage on removable media is vulnerable to tampering. KVault secures footage from capture to court submission with cryptographic hash binding at each custody transfer.
Drones deployed in covert anti-terror, anti-narcotics or organised-crime surveillance generate data that, if leaked, endangers operatives and compromises active investigations. Operational data must stay inaccessible — even to unauthorised police personnel — until cleared by investigation leadership.
Police drones running crowd monitoring or facial recognition capture civilian biometric data — sensitive personal data under the DPDP Act 2023. Storing it without data minimisation and access controls exposes agencies to regulatory liability and fundamental-rights challenges.
