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The greatest threat to post-quantum cryptography may not be the quantum computer.
It may be concentration.
ML-KEM (Kyber), Dilithium, and FN-DSA are not the same algorithm. But they share similar mathematical assumptions. A large portion of the world's post-quantum infrastructure is converging on a single family of mathematical hypotheses.
To me, that looks like too much efficiency and too little diversification.
That concern is what led to the creation of Mock Theta Cryptography.
But while investigating the problem, I encountered an even more fundamental question.
Virtually all modern cryptography relies on the same axiom:
Public information uniquely identifies the secret.
RSA assumes this.
ECC assumes this.
Three of the four major post-quantum systems assume it as well.
The equations change.
The axiom remains.
After years studying the work of Srinivasa Ramanujan and the mathematics of mock objects, and after countless discussions with Sander Zwegers, I began questioning something that seemed untouchable:
Why is the uniqueness of the secret treated as inevitable?
What if this axiom is wrong?
What if security does not depend solely on the difficulty of inverting a function?
What if it emerges from the structural impossibility of identifying a unique solution?
That question became the foundation of Mock Theta Cryptography.
Not as an attempt to build a faster algorithm.
But as an attempt to explore a different cryptographic ontology.
An architecture based not only on computational hardness, but on informational hardness.
Systems in which observation does not imply identification.
For a long time, this existed only as a mathematical hypothesis.
Over the last few months, however, the work moved into engineering.
Mock Theta Cryptography now includes functional implementations in Rust and C, FPGA prototypes, key exchange primitives, digital signatures, pseudorandom functions, and cryptographic commitment schemes.
This does not mean all questions have been answered.
Cryptography is not validated by declarations.
It is validated by scrutiny, attack, and time.
But an important milestone has been reached.
The discussion is no longer about feasibility.
Because the hypothesis is no longer merely a hypothesis.
Mock Theta Cryptography exists.
It exists in software.
It exists in hardware.
It exists as a system.
We are not talking about just another post-quantum algorithm.
We are talking about a new category of cryptographic systems.