Soutache is Braided Reality Networks
made with QiRKey, Philocalist, Mizpah, Sashay, Emotif, Chiffre and Carte

Braided Reality Network

Triggered into existance by physical objects and their associated attributes: physical passwords, and encryption keys. It braids the two extemes of the virtual-physical continuum into endless arbitrary network topologies.

QiRKey

"Quick interactive Response Key".
The world's 1st hardware key w/o electronics.
Other than QRCode, it also encodes
physical attributes as encryption key
the physical encryption algorithm
and acts as a Physical Password input device.

Philocalist

Enhanced software framework performing the functionalities of QiRKey with physical objects.
It turns any smartphone into a trigger for networks and Physical Password device.

Mizpah

Random Spontaneous URL
Made possible by manipulating physical attributes of server files and is generated at the moment of delivery and relocated as soon as the delivery is complete

Sashay

Physical Password & Encryption
The paradigm shift from ASCII text passwords to physical movement and environmental parameters as password and encryption key

Chiffre

Both a Software Algorithm and Mental Rule
The combination works in tandem to produce a passphrase with time code embedded in it to delay result.

Carte

A QiRKey memento made with precious metal and stones with the backside blank for autograph, message and chiffre.

Emotif

The ability to perform psychological profiling on network forensic data.
To sift through new acquaintances to make social interactions safe.

the Details of Soutache

raison d'être

custom-design networks by contract only

Usage Scenarios
military nuclear authentication mechanism like a "football"
diplomats in hostile foreign territories
political dissident groups under oppression
revolution against undesirable regimes
espionage "Cardinal of the Kremlin" agent communication
guarding organization secrects
corporate lock for compartmentalized secrects on need-to-know basis
segmented access for project teams
civilian intimate sharing between romantic couples
heirlooms as group ID
all high-level membership ID & security
encryption key for individuals & personal use
...as of 2021/01/30

Paradigm Shift in Cybersecurity

  1. Physical Password and Physical Encryption that is more emotionally engaging than ASCII.
  2. No electronic hardware that alerts secrecy.
  3. No biometrics that entices dismemberment.
  4. No sitting duck network prone to continued attacks.
  5. Anti-keylogger, with no password input via keyboard.
  6. Modular and scalable for any arbitrary desired complexity.
  7. Device-independent, thus non-targetable and cannot be monitored.
  8. Physical Uncertainty Principle to construct networks at the time of delivery.
  9. Physical Impossibility Principle to design security topologies.
  10. ULTIMATE CYBERSECURITY as the end-user configures topology without computing devices.

Technologies Invented by Soutache

in relation to the
virtuality-continuum

theoratical positioning of Soutache relative to the Virtuality Continuum
Braided Reality Network blends two extremes of the spectrum and interwines the extremes as needed into endless network topologies. The Mixed Reality encompassed in the middle is not to be dismissed as they still provide useable attributes when incorporated into Braided Reality Networks.

Section 1. Modules

QiRKey

Soutache QiRKey under normal QRCode frameworkSoutache QiRKey using any graphic as physical key
In the most basic forms, they can be attached to different materials.
The end product is as artsy and decorative as jewllery.
When used in conjunction with Philocalist, a QiRKey can be bestowed with the following information:
  1. A URL under normal QRCode framework
  2. A string of text under normal QRCode framework
  3. A string of text under "stegnography" framework in the file
  4. A string of text under visual "stegnography"
  5. The physical encryption algorithm under visual "stegnography"
  6. The QiRKey itself is a "physical password" input device

Philocalist

Soutache QiRKey Example with QRCode under Philocalist
Soutache QiRKey Example without QRCode under Philocalist
Philocalist is the all-encompassing software framework that works on both of these images.
The 1st is a QiRKey with Physical Encryption Keys.
The 2nd is an exmaple of Philocalist in action without QiRKey.
The framework is capable of abstracting physical parameters such as colours, patterns, geo-location, temperature, altitude, speed, heart rate, sound...etc.

philocalist - (n.) a lover of beauty; someone who sees beauty in everything.

Mizpah

a. https://abc.com/def/ghi/jkl/index.html
b. https://mno.com/pqr/stu/vwx/index.html
both of the URLs above deliver the same content. Randomly and Dynamically generated at moment of delivery and destructed rightaway.
Inspired by the phrase "jamais vu", the antonym of "deja vu". Mizpah is a script that lives on server(s) that manipulates the physical attributes of files.

mizpah - (n.) an emotional bond between people seperated by distance or death. Ring or half-coins, worn (as by lovers) to signify remembrance.

Section 2. Theories

Physical Encryption

Birth of Physical Encrypton at NYU-ITP Physical Computing Lab in the spring of 2001

A project called "Physical Encryption" aimed at linking "deja vu" and "muscle memory" to enhance emotional values of computer files and the contents. Two 3-Axis Switch were made and used to wave in specific patterns to distort a graphic file. The data from the movement sequences is used both as a password and encryption key. Photo taken at NYU-ITP Physical Computing Lab in the spring of 2001.
a photo before Physical Encryption, decrypted
decrypted
a photo after Physical Encryption, encrypted
encrypted

Steganography

Steganography (/ˌstɛɡəˈnɒɡrəfi/STEG-ə-NOG-rə-fee) is the practice of concealing a message within another message or a physical object. In computing/electronic contexts, a computer file, message, image, or video is concealed within another file, message, image, or video. The word steganography comes from Greek steganographia, which combines the words steganós (στεγανός), meaning "covered or concealed", and -graphia (γραφή) meaning "writing".[1] The first recorded use of the term was in 1499 by Johannes Trithemius in his Steganographia, a treatise on cryptography and steganography, disguised as a book on magic.

3-PRSCNT Network

"PHYSICAL REALITY STEGANO-CRYPTO NETWORK THEORY" coined by James C. Lin in 2020 to integrate "Physical Encryption" and "QiRKey". Now renamed : Soutache.

Section 3. Terminologies

Physical Password

physical parameters generated by physical objects, observable and collectable by computing devices and used as "passwords" instead of typing ascii texts.

Sitting Duck Networks

Traditional URLs with fixed addresses. Called "Sitting Ducks" because they are prone to repeated hacker attacks because they are always there. Not much as progressed in the last few decades with SDN other than the length of the passwords.

github

The following can be seen on github registration page.

Soutache QiRKey Example with QRCode under Philocalist
The following is a complicated random username generator.
Soutache QiRKey Example without QRCode under Philocalist
longer and longer and more unrecognizable

Network Uncertainty Principle

In Soutache, Aspects of a workable network are not fixed nor predefined.

Network Impossibility Principle

the same meaning and context as the legal term. In Soutache, physical impossiblity is incorporated into network design.

original meaning of soutache

Soutache (/suːˈtæʃ/, soo-TASH), also known as Russia braid,[1] is a narrow flat decorative braid, a type of galloon, used in the trimming of drapery or clothing. Soutache is created by weaving a decorative thread around and between two parallel cords and completely covering the cores; this produces a piece of trim with a braided or herringbone pattern.[2] Often woven of metallic bullion thread, silk, or a blend of silk and wool,[3] soutache began to be made of rayon and other synthetic fibers in the 20th century. Video credit to : Glamour Girl channel on Youtube.
...as of 2021/01/30