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Comment · 11 months ago
Introducting Browserver, the website that turns your web browser into a web server!

The app uses WebRTC to serve your index (.html/.htm) and/or directories directly from your web browser.

Step 1 - Choose your root directory on your device. If it doesn't contain an index, then a list of directories and files are shown. Step 2 - Click the Start Server button. Step 3 - Share the link!

As long as your browser stays open and your PC doesn't sleep, your website remains active.

Comment · 1 year ago
Quintrophy1x has been appropriately renamed as, Quintropy1x. This aligns better with the Quintessentropy suite as well as succeeding it's purpose in delivering quintessential entropy on every encryption.
Comment · 1 year ago
Thanks for the question! You’re spot on. Fisher-Yates is a key part of Quintrophy1x’s design, used twice per instance: once to generate a dynamic 256-element S-box and once for a 128-byte block permutation. For both shuffles, we seed Fisher-Yates with a SHA-512 hash of the key and nonce.

For the S-box, we generate a 256-element lookup table. We feed the Fisher-Yates shuffle a robust stream of pseudo-random numbers derived from the 512-bit key and a 16-byte nonce, processed through a SHA-512 hash function. We tweak this input slightly for the S-box so it’s distinct from other uses, ensuring every encryption gets a unique table. The shuffle then scrambles the 0-255 values based on this randomness, giving us a key-dependent substitution layer. For the permutation, we take each 128-byte block of data and reorder its bytes. We feed Fisher-Yates the same key and nonce combo, hashed again, to produce another pseudo-random sequence. This drives the shuffle, rearranging the block’s byte positions in a way that’s consistent for a given key-nonce pair.

This approach ensures each shuffle is deterministic for a given key-nonce pair (crucial for reversibility) but appears random to an attacker without the key. SHA-512’s 512-bit output provides ample entropy, and the nonce adds uniqueness per encryption.

Comment · 1 year ago
Thanks for your comment! As this is a brand-new project, it hasn’t been submitted to the IACR ePrint Archive yet, and there’s no prior mention of it there or in broader searches, being that it’s a fresh release. We built this as an original implementation to push the boundaries of encryption strength with a 512-bit key and custom transformations, and I’m excited to share it with the community here first.
Comment · 1 year ago
With a 512-bit key and 16 rounds operating on 128-byte blocks, Quintrophy1x integrates dynamic substitution, key-driven permutations, fractional bit mixing, and inter-block diffusion to create a quantum-proof cipher that's stronger than AES-256-GCM.

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