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24 alternatives to DIAC – Open-Source Quantum-Resistant Cryptosystem

I’ve developed a new public-key encryption scheme (DIAC) that uses multidimensional, high-precision complex keyspaces and a modular trapdoor function for ultra-high entropy and quantum resistance. The code, benchmarks, and research paper (PDF) are all open-source: https://osf.io/mvkcq/ Would love feedback, questions, or cryptanalysis!

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    filippo.io/mlkem768 is a pure-Go implementation of the post-quantum key exchange mechanism ML-KEM-768 optimized for correctness and readability.

    2024 · words.filippo.io · its alternatives →

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    Long-simmering side project that is finally ready to see the light. HAMTs are a cool persistent data structure and implementing one has been a lot of fun. Beyond the code, there is likely some value in the extensive and largely complete implementation docs; basic benchmarks are linked in the README, too. Kind of aiming to be "the libavl for HAMTs". That is obviously a high and aspirational bar but a distinct possibility if it stirs up a little interest and/or contribution. Anyways, it's time for this to go out, collect feedback and maybe even some use outside of toy projects. Let me…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Free cross-platform deniable encryption cryptoarchiver - GitHub - zorggomat/FractalCryptGUI: Free cross-platform deniable encryption cryptoarchiver

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, We (myself, Adhyyan1252 and yush_g) are undergrad students that hacked out this side project last month during Hack Lodge[1] (the ideas and many of the underlying circuits for which came from the 0xPARC community[2])! We’re extremely excited to share this new primitive. Besides the technical challenges building this project that folks here would find interesting (fixing the ZK proof compiler, modifying nodeJS V8 params etc.), we think this is a very novel use case for ZK tech, and ECDSA inside ZK-SNARKs is a starting point that unlocks many other ideas! :D A summarized version of our…

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A Fully Homomorphic Encryption Brainfuck virtual machine - f-prime/arcanevm

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello HN! We are developers and security researchers making tools for developers to encrypt data at an application level while maintaining sole control of their keys. We believe that data should always be encrypted unless it is part of an active computation. Encryption is relatively easy, but key management is challenging. There are plenty of encryption tools and SDKs that are out there (Hashicorp Vault, AWS KMS etc.) but we are focusing on ease and speed of implementation, developer experience and self custody of keys. A few months ago, we quit our jobs and started full time on Phase. So…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello HN, we're CipherNomad, the research initiative behind this project. The Ariadne Protocol is our exploration of a different cryptographic model. The work began with an observation of primitives like the Lion transform, which use a static, hardcoded sequence of operations. This led us to ask: What if the cryptographic "program" wasn't a constant, but a dynamic, history-dependent variable? Our first step was a "Cryptographic Virtual Machine" that took an explicit list of operations (a "Path"). This worked, but required sharing the Path object—an explicit dependency that needed to be…

    2025 · codeberg.org · its alternatives →

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    hey folks! My book Real-World Cryptography was just released and is now shipping. I've been working on this thing for the last two years and a half, and the goal was to give a good overview of everything that can be classified as "real-world" about crypto. You'll find all the basics in the first half of the book, and the second half contains chapters on TLS, noise, PAKEs, post-quantum cryptography, zero-knowledge proofs, MPC, cryptocurrencies, FHE, etc. So it's a good pick if you're learning, but also if you've been in the field for a while and want an intro to some subfield you're…

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Hello. I made this project as an experiment in using key cryptography for user identity in a client server model, and for some future peer to peer projects that I am working on. I am looking for feedback, please let me know what you think. Also, Merry Christmas to HN! :-)

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

  11. 11OS

    We’ve just released an open-source library for solving the Maximum Independent Set (MIS) problem with neutral atom quantum computing, running on both quantum processing units (QPUs) and classical hardware, thanks to emulators. This project is the result of collaboration between Pasqal, academic researchers, and industry partners, aiming to make it practical to experiment with quantum approaches to hard combinatorial optimization tasks. The MIS problem appears in real-world scenarios like scheduling, resource allocation, and network optimization, areas where classical solvers often struggle…

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, I’m Ilias, 19, from Paris. I built Ellipticc Drive, an open-source cloud drive with true end-to-end encryption and post-quantum security, designed to be Dropbox-like in UX but with zero access to your data, even by the host. What’s unique: Free 10GB for every user, forever. Open-source frontend (audit or self-host if you want) Tech stack: Frontend: Next.js Crypto: WebCrypto (hashing) + Noble (core primitives) Encryption: XChaCha20-Poly1305 (file chunks) Key wrapping: Kyber (ML-KEM768) Signing: Ed25519 + Dilithium2 (ML-DSA65) Key derivation: Argon2id → Master Key → encrypts all…

    Oct 2025 · ellipticc.com · its alternatives →

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    Pitch, Idea, Discussion, Help, Launch, Crypto, Startup

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    QLX▲12

    post quantum encryption suite

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    Get free email forwarding for custom domains. Send & receive as [email protected] with unlimited aliases, 10GB storage, IMAP/POP3/SMTP & 100% open-source security. Trusted by 500K+ users. Setup in 2 minutes.

    2023 · forwardemail.net · its alternatives →

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    For the past few months, I’ve been working on a new Layer 1 blockchain designed to solve what I see as the fundamental trilemma in the space: achieving strong privacy, infinite scalability, and post-quantum security simultaneously. The result is NERV: a private-by-default, horizontally scalable blockchain that replaces Merkle trees with 512-byte neural state embeddings, proven inside Halo2 circuits and attested in hardware enclaves. Key technical innovations: Neural State Embeddings Instead of Merkle trees, the entire state of a shard is compressed into a 512-byte vector using a transformer…

    Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I've been working on a C# implementation of Keyczar or months now. You can find it on github. http://jbtule.github.com/keyczar-dotnet/ It's feature complete, I've done a lot of unit tests, have about 90% code coverage, run various freely available static analysis, built it on linux and windows, but what I've really lacked is another person to actually look at the code. It's easy to make crypto mistakes, even when you know the common mistakes yourself. So I'd appreciate any comments, code reviews, thoughts, and issues. Thanks!

    2013 · jbtule.github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, we have recently completed a research project on how to encrypt emails with post-quantum secure algorithms as well as Forward Secrecy. We'd love to hear your feedback and discuss technical issues. The paper can be found here: https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/875

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Go Quantum-Safe Before Quantum Goes Live

    2025 · qu-secure.net · its alternatives →

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    NuCypher fully homomorphic encryption (NuFHE) library implemented in Python - nucypher/nufhe

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Generate quantum-safe passwords instantly

    2024 · passgenz.com · its alternatives →

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    The model uses a 1024-dimensional complex Hilbert space with 32 layers of programmable Mach–Zehnder meshes (Reck architecture) and derives token probabilities directly via the Born rule. Despite using only unitary operations and no attention mechanism, a 1024×32 model achieves coherent TinyStories generation after < 1.8 hours of training on a single consumer GPU. This is Part 1 - the next step is physical implementation with $50 of optics from AliExpress.

    Nov 2025 · zenodo.org · its alternatives →

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    A zero dependency implementation of Shamir Secret Sharing in pure Go - GitHub - openfort-xyz/shamir-secret-sharing-go: A zero dependency implementation of Shamir Secret Sharing in pure Go

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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