Veritas et Clavis◆Truth and the Key
Cryptography that holds up when someone can touch the hardware.
The work
A protocol can be sound and still leak the key through power draw, timing, or a memory that answers the same question twice. NetworkCrypt works at the level where those failures actually live — the silicon, the key material, and the seam between them.
Silicon
Logic and memory designed so the physical side channel carries no signal — constant-current cells and device geometries built for mature planar nodes, where the behavior is measurable rather than assumed.
Custody
Memory whose contents collapse on access, so a secret survives exactly one authorized read and nothing afterward — including a probe attached to a powered-down board.
Review
Threat modeling and implementation review for teams shipping devices into environments where the attacker eventually holds the board in their hand.
How we work
Papers
Work is posted before review so it can be read, cited, and argued with early. Neither of these has been through peer review; treat them accordingly. Further preprints and the current publication record are on ORCID.
Argues that systems capable of exerting continuous rather than episodic influence constitute a distinct catastrophic risk class, and that the tool/agent boundary current policy relies on no longer holds.
doi.org/10.22541/au.176790707.76303170/v1The first authorized read returns the value and triggers collapse in the same event. Includes a 1024-cell FPGA demonstration on Cyclone V with instrumented captures.
TechRxiv · doi.org/10.36227/techrxiv.176463742.23048082/v3Contact
Engineering inquiries, licensing questions, and collaboration on hardware-rooted key custody.
frank@qsymbolic.com