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OnyxCypher: Quantum-Resistant Cipher

In the dawn of civilization, we have still achieved great strides in science and technology, even though no one has ever known what time really is or what energy really is; we only know how to measure these quantities and apply them in technology with useful everyday features. What is information? No one knows that either.

OnyxCypher - Awakening

In the dawn of civilization, we have still achieved great strides in science and technology, even though no one has ever known what time really is or what energy really is; we only know how to measure these quantities and apply them in technology with useful everyday features.

What is information? No one knows that either.

But throughout human history there have been wars for power. The great generals who built mighty empires: Alexander the Great, Caesar, Genghis Khan, Saladin… all gained the upper hand to win based on these factors:

? Better Logistics technology than the opponent

? Better Information technology than the opponent

? Better Weapons technology than the opponent

? Information security — cryptography — is a very important part of information technology

Shannon, the first person to measure information, known as the "father of information theory" [2], who also contributed greatly to codebreaking in World War II, distinguished and measured information using the quantity of information entropy: high information entropy means more information, low information entropy means more randomness;

Yet information is only a specific sequence of randomness; assuming the sequence is unknown, high information at that moment appears no different from randomness;

OnyxCypher was invented in such a moment of awakening — it turns out, a sequence is just a case of randomness;

Based on a property of video signals — very high information entropy, the highest among data types — OnyxCypher has Onx: it mixes information with randomness into randomness, in a way that is itself random, after which the data becomes more secure than ever;

Even quantum computers cannot predict it, because each dataset is a randomness that cannot be predicted or follow any mathematical function. Security with very high system resource efficiency; high performance can also be understood as low cost — watch the video comparing OnyxCypher vs AES performance on the same hardware system.

OnyxCypher is one of Onyx's 4 inventions in cryptography, a new cipher with a somewhat crazy idea equivalent to AES and Morpheus: hiding information in chaos. Is OnyxCypher invincible?

Morpheus

Morpheus, the god of dreams, who awakened Neo — the Chosen One in The Matrix — that name was given to an invincible, unhackable security chip [1]; with Churn — the randomization mixer after encryption — encrypted information transforms once more, becoming like randomness, defying all analysis and all attack methods;

Fabricating the Morpheus chip took a whole year and tons of money; its invincibility has been proven in practice — at least so far, the 500 challengers have not found any way to break it; (by the way, this chip is from the US, not from Onyx)

And the name Morpheus was not chosen by chance — awakening, or just a dream?!

[1] Morpheus, unhackable chip: https://bit.ly/38GJ0cf

[2] Shannon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon

[See more: The Cryptography Series]

Part 1: Breaking Enigma - Alan Turing

Part 2: Breaking RSA - Shor's Quantum Algorithm

Part 3: AES - The Post-Quantum Cipher