A small lab building two things from first principles: a new encryption system, and a new programming language.
The name: nonce, plaintext, xor, the three things every stream cipher touches. The mark is XOR drawn as shapes: where the two squares overlap, they cancel.
$ ls ~/io lattice/ npx/ $ cat ~/io/lattice/STATUS a 256-bit stream cipher, 20 rounds 5 rounds broken by our own attacks round 6 and up: holding public challenge: open $ cat ~/io/npx/STATUS a general-purpose language version 0.3, compiles to JavaScript $
a new encryption system
An experimental 256-bit stream cipher built from add, rotate, XOR and one multiply. We designed four versions, attacked each one ourselves, and published every result, including the ones that broke it.
a new programming language
A general-purpose language where data flows left to right like a shell pipe, failures are values you handle on the same line, and & runs work in the background.
LATTICE-1 looked fine until a scan of every input bit found a crack; four rounds fell for about 277 work. That result sits in the public log next to the good ones.
Every number we publish comes from attacks we ran first: differential, linear, cube, rotational and key recovery, over billions of samples.
Nothing we invent protects real data until other people have spent years failing to break it. Until then, real software uses proven tools.