The Problem

The Fatal Problem With Existing Security Approaches

Every secure commercial and military communication relies on cryptographic keys. Today’s methods for creating and distributing keys face insurmountable threats from quantum computing and scaling security for increasing numbers of vulnerable devices.

Legacy PKI and existing quantum security offerings have gaps that can no longer be covered.

A Ticking Time Bomb

PKI

  • Expensive, not architected
    for scale
  • Not designed for today’s
    low-powered devices
  • If root signing key is
    compromised, the entire
    PKI is undermined
  • Less than half (47%)
    confident in PKI compliance*
  • 60% experienced weak
    cryptographic exploit*
  • More than half (56%)
    suffer outages*

*Source: Trends in PKI Security: A Global Study of Trends, Challenges, & Business Impact, Ponemon Institute

Post-Quantum Security Limitations

ML-KEM

Internet, IoT, and OT devices create keys and certificates that are growing in size, increasing the computational requirements and associated cost burden. It’s unsustainable, forcing the industry to explore new types of infrastructure to handle the increased key and certificate sizes.

Post-Quantum Security Limitations

Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC)

DH Key Exchange will not survive beyond the first quantum computer. Google set an internal 2029 deadline to migrate systems to post-quantum cryptography (PQC), warning that advancements in quantum error correction could break current Elliptic Curve (ECC) encryption by that time. This timeline, driven by the threat of “Harvest Now, Decrypt Later” attacks, forces immediate, proactive security updates across the industry.

CypherGenics
Vulnerability Gap
PKI
Post-quantum encryption on 8/16-bit OT microcontrollers
PLCs, RTUs, IEDs, at Purdue Levels 0 and 1
No external network dependency at runtime

The Solution

Protect the Vulnerable With Future-Proof Security

Organizations depend on certificate authorities, key exchanges, and complex trust chains that were never designed for cloud and quantum computing. CypherGenics rethinks digital trust from the ground up. We shift cybersecurity from managing keys and certificates to managing trusted identities. Binding cryptographic trust to verified identities secures authentication and encrypts communication without certificates, handshakes, secret transmission, or PKI dependencies. It’s a simpler, faster, and more resilient foundation for digital trust across users, devices, applications, workloads, and machines.

The 3 Principles of Renewed Trust

CypherGenics replaces legacy PKI, certificate management, and key exchange infrastructure with a quantum-safe identity architecture where authentication, encryption, and access control are built into identity itself. The architecture rests on three fundamental principles:

01

Identity Is the New Perimeter

Replace certificates with cryptographically trusted identities.

  • Every user, device, application, and workload receives a cryptographically trusted identity
  • No fragile certificate chains

02

Quantum-ready Security

Protect against current and future computing threats.

  • Secure cryptographic foundations against classical and quantum computing threats
  • Isolate risk and protect critical relationships under extreme compromise scenarios. For example, millions of compromised endpoints do not expose trusted parties’ communications.

03

Authentication at Scale

Eliminate key exchange, certificate validation, and trust-chain complexity.

  • Trusted systems create shared keys independently. No certificates, handshakes, or secret transmissions. Less complexity. More security.
  • From users to devices, secure identity and authentication without PKI’s scaling limitations
  • High system speed for any network size – millions or billions of users

How It Works

Can You Keep a Secret?

With CypherGenics, the Answer Is “Yes”

CypherGenics provisions users into a system by providing a secret to each individual that allows both users to derive a unique shared secret without any communications. CypherGenics uses these shared secrets to establish provisioning authority for multiple servers to establish redundancy and ensure resiliency. If a server is compromised, the whole system maintains continuity. The system stays secure even if an adversary captures every other device.

2 Parties Share a Secret

Key generation becomes isolated, controlled, and significantly easier.

2 Parties Agree on a Key

Unlike legacy PKI, no certificate authority is required. There is no system overhead churning out certificate issuance, renewal, revoking, or tracking computing threats.

No Handshake Needed

It’s a fast, lightweight exchange compared to legacy PKI.

CypherGenics Technology:

Identity is Intrinsic,
Not an Add-on

Most security architectures bolt identity onto systems after the fact. Certificates are issued, policies are layered, and trust is outsourced to third parties.

CypherGenics takes a fundamentally different path. Our patented fully symmetric methodology embeds identity directly into the cryptographic fabric itself, making every interaction verifiable by mathematics rather than managed by policy. The result is quantum-ready IAM that’s 100 times faster than PKI, free of legacy cost and complexity, and immune to the quantum attacks that will render certificate-based trust obsolete. When identity is built in rather than bolted on, an entire attack surface simply disappears. That’s why enterprises and critical infrastructure operators are making CypherGenics their post-quantum security foundation.

The Difference Between Future-Proof And Legacy Security

CypherGenics
VS.
PKI

Provisioning server
Infrastructure
Entire system with certificate authority

Multiple roots of trust (can be offline)
Distributed Trust
Single root

Stateless, no central server query at runtime avoids single point of failure
Authentication
Certificate authority, OCSP

Secrets
Exchange
Certificates

Isolated, controlled, easier
Key Generation
Processor-intensive

Intrinsic
Identity
Add-on

100
X
Faster than legacy PKI
10
K
CPU cycles to establish shared secret regardless of network ecosystem’s size – from hundreds to millions of users
0.
77
ms
authentication time on a ESP32-S3

Quantum threats will be just like AI. They will suddenly show up and blindside a lot of businesses. Get ahead of it. Be proactive. Start now.

William Arbaugh, President of CypherGenics

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