🪺 Cincia Keys Vault:

New 3.0.0 version released

Advanced Key Obfuscation (Nest)

Unlike traditional key managers that simply encrypt Private keys into standard formats, BennyPQ v2.0.0 introduces a radical Zero-Knowledge Obfuscation System known as the Cincia Keys Vault.

Instead of generating a recognizable key file, the engine hides your critical private keys inside a decoy-filled file named ….nest.txt.

How the “Nest” Security Architecture Works:

• The Chaffing Mechanism: When you create your file vault, the engine generates 95 completely fake decoy pieces of cryptographic data.
• Key Fragmentation: Your actual post-quantum private keys are split into only 2 genuine pieces.
• Byte Alteration: To make brute-forcing mathematically impossible, the engine deliberately alters specific bytes within those 2 genuine pieces.
• The Secret Phrase: All 97 pieces (95 fakes + 2 altered reals) are shuffled together into the nest.txt file. Without your secret passphrase, an attacker cannot distinguish the real pieces from the decoys, nor can they know which bytes were altered.

How to Use the Cincia Keys Vault

1. Creating your Nest File

1. Open the Cincia Keys Vault panel within BennyPQ.
2. Enter your custom Secret Phrase.
3. The engine will instantly assemble the mixture of 95 decoys and 2 altered key fragments.
4. Download the resulting file, which saves by default as a harmless-looking nest.txt.

2. Rebuilding your Private Keys

1. To encrypt, sign, or decrypt files, you must first reconstruct your identity.
2. Load your nest.txt file into the BennyPQ interface.
3. Provide your exact Secret Phrase.
4. The Cincia code will read the phrase, isolate the 2 correct fragments from the 95 fakes, revert the changed bytes to their original state, and rebuild your ML-KEM and ML-DSA private keys in secure memory. Once rebuilt, they are automatically loaded into the proper input based on their type (KEM or DSA), so you do not have to load them manually.

Even if a malicious actor steals the nest.txt file, they are looking at a digital haystack. They cannot run standard cryptographic attacks because they don’t know which data is real, and even if they guess the right fragments, the keys remain broken until the exact byte-mutation logic is reversed by the secret phrase.