The problem
What today's M2M auth can't deliver in drones.
Today's drone authentication relies on infrastructure that doesn't survive contested airspace. mTLS handshakes need ground-station reachability. OAuth-based authentication assumes an authorisation server in line of sight. SCMS-style PKI for drone-to-drone authentication doesn't scale to swarm volumes and provides no post-quantum story for the fifteen-year vehicle lifetime that operators are now planning around.
How EdSSA addresses it
What EdSSA does differently here.
EdSSA Nano provides drone-to-drone, drone-to-ground, and drone-to-infrastructure authentication that works without any centralised authority in the hot path. After a single post-quantum bootstrap handshake at deployment time, every subsequent authentication is computed locally, in microseconds, against a credential that survives jamming, beyond-line-of-sight operation, multi-day disconnects, and adversarial RF environments. EdSSA Swarm extension provides threshold-based swarm authentication that holds even when a fraction of the swarm is jammed, lost, or compromised.
Use cases
Concrete operational scenarios.
- Mutual authentication between drones in a high-density swarm
- Authenticated command-and-control from ground station to forward drone, surviving contested-airspace conditions
- Hardware-bound device identity that resists capture-and-clone attacks
- Multi-drone formation operations where the swarm's identity must hold despite member loss
Compliance & standards
Standards and regulatory regimes.
EASA U-space framework alignment. EU NIS2 and CER directive coverage. CNSA 2.0 post-quantum migration roadmap. EU export-control clean.
Audit emission
NIS2-aligned audit logging with operator-configurable tiers. Per-flight authentication event records, optional tamper-evident anchoring for incident review.
Customers
Operators in this vertical.
“When connectivity went, our drones kept authenticating to each other. Mission completed without ground-station reachability.”