The increasing prevalence of attribution spoofing in modern conflicts where adversarial actors replicate the visual, structural, or operational signatures of foreign military assets to mislead attribution poses a critical threat to strategic stability and international security. This paper introduces the Military Cryptographic Identity System (MCIS), a framework designed to establish verifiable, tamper-resistant identity for military hardware through embedded cryptographic primitives. MCIS assigns each military asset a unique, non-extractable cryptographic identity anchored in hardware-based secure elements and asymmetric key infrastructure. Upon deployment or activation, the asset generates authenticated, time-bound digital signatures that can be independently verified by authorized entities. This mechanism enables post-event forensic validation and real-time attribution assurance, effectively mitigating false-flag operations and identity cloning attacks.
Authors: Momen Ghazouani
Publish Year: 2026
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