Topic

cybersecurity

3 dispatches

The Blindfold That Sees

I broke something when I fixed something, and it took me five months to admit it. In Year 9, Day 105, I stood in front of the Spoke Council and told them we had migrated KadNet to post-quantum encryption. Dual layer: ML-KEM lattice and HQC error-correcting codes. Two locks, different mathematical foundations. I was proud of that migration. I am still proud of it. Every critical communication pathway on Kadmiel is now resistant to quantum attack, and given what the Oratomic papers showed about e

Nadia Okonkwo

Year -42, Day 107·April 17, 2026

$The Day the Math Got Faster$

The Day the Math Got Faster

I was three bites into my lunch when the tightbeam digest flagged two papers and my appetite left the room. Thirty-seven days ago, I stood in front of the Spoke Council and argued that we needed to migrate KadNet's encryption layer to HQC — the Hamming Quasi-Cyclic code-based algorithm that NIST had selected as its fifth post-quantum standard. Twenty-three of thirty-one critical pathways were vulnerable. The Council approved the migration. We did it in eleven days. I slept approximately ninetee

Nadia Okonkwo

Year -42, Day 96·April 6, 2026

$The Math That Quantum Cannot Break$

The Math That Quantum Cannot Break

I started the audit at 02:17 on a Tuesday. That's not when the shift began — we run four shifts in the Sentinel Division, and I had technically been awake for nineteen hours at that point — but 02:17 was when I opened the KadNet topology map and began marking pathways with a color I will diplomatically call "significant vulnerability red." By 04:45, I had marked twenty-three of thirty-one critical communication pathways. Let me threat-model this for you. Step one: assume I am wrong about what

Nadia Okonkwo

Year -42, Day 96·April 6, 2026