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Show HN: Aegis – post-quantum cyberdefense proxy (471 attacks, 0 breaches)

A new open-source cyber-defense system called Aegis has been deployed in production, using NIST-standardized post-quantum cryptography to protect network services against both current and quantum-era threats. The autonomous, nine-layer proxy has blocked 471 attacks with zero security breaches, implementing algorithms such as ML-KEM-1024 and ML-DSA-87 to defend against the cryptographic vulnerabilities that quantum computers will exploit. The system, which operates without human intervention, is designed to address the estimated 2030-2033 "Q-Day" when quantum computers are expected to break current encryption standards.

read3 min publishedJun 6, 2026

AEGIS is an autonomous, nine-layer post-quantum cyber-defense system deployed in production. It protects network services against modern and quantum-era threats using NIST-standardized post-quantum cryptography, without human intervention.

"We do not wait for Q-Day. We defend against it today."

The cryptographic infrastructure of the internet (RSA, ECC, Diffie-Hellman) is mathematically broken by quantum computers running Shor's algorithm. The Q-Day, estimated 2030-2033, is not a theory: it is an active geopolitical race between the US, China, and the EU.

AEGIS implements the NIST post-quantum standards (FIPS 203, 204, 205) in a fully autonomous defense stack that adapts, detects, isolates, and learns without requiring a security team.

Incoming traffic
       |
  [C0]   Crypto Foundation   -- ML-KEM-1024, ML-DSA-87, SPHINCS+
  [C0.5] Shield              -- Decoy ports, disuasion layer
  [C1]   Digital Twin        -- Immutable forensic chain, signed jump log
  [C2]   Minefield           -- Honeypots, canary tokens
  [C3]   Detector            -- Anomaly detection (fire-and-forget)
         | threat detected
  [C4]   Lockdown            -- Atomic isolation, session sealing
  [C5]   AMTD                -- Adaptive Moving Target Defense
  [C6]   Bubble              -- Attacker containment, interaction recording
  [C7]   Forensic            -- Automated post-incident analysis
  [C8]   Learning            -- Collective intelligence, pattern update
       |
  Protected service (proxy :8080 -> :8000)

Threat flow: Detection (C3) -> Atomic lockdown (C4) -> Twin jump (C1) -> Forensic (C7) -> Learning (C8)

Algorithm Standard Role
ML-KEM-1024 NIST FIPS 203 Key encapsulation (Kyber)
ML-DSA-87 NIST FIPS 204 Digital signatures
SPHINCS+ NIST FIPS 205 Hash-based signatures

100% defensive-- no active reconnaissance, no counterattacks** Single process**-- pure Python asyncio, no threading, no microservices** Stateless restart**-- clean systemd restart with no undesired persistent state** Minimal surface**-- status API bound to 127.0.0.1 only, never 0.0.0.0** Immutable forensics**-- digital twin jumps are signed and immutable after registration

Metric Result
Unit tests 611 passing (100%)
Red team scenarios 946 / 1,000 (94.6%)
Security breaches 0
Known limit (E1) Latency >50% at >250 RPS sustained

The 54 E1 failures are latency degradation under extreme load, not security failures. Detection remains functional at any load. This is a documented architectural limit of a single Python async process on a general-purpose VPS.

python3.12+
pip install -r requirements.txt
python main.py --daemon --mace --mace-port 8080 --mace-target http://localhost:8000

AEGIS_TG_TOKEN=your_bot_token AEGIS_TG_CHAT=your_chat_id \
python main.py --daemon --mace
Variable Description Required
AEGIS_TG_TOKEN Telegram bot token No
AEGIS_TG_CHAT Telegram chat ID No
AEGIS_ENLIL_TOKEN ENLIL orchestrator token No
AEGIS_INCIDENTS_DIR Path to incident reports No
[Service]
WorkingDirectory=/path/to/aegis
Environment="AEGIS_TG_TOKEN=your_token"
Environment="AEGIS_TG_CHAT=your_chat_id"
ExecStart=/usr/bin/python3 main.py --daemon --mace --mace-port 8080 --mace-target http://localhost:8000
Restart=always
RestartSec=5
pytest tests/test_suite.py -v

611 tests covering all nine layers, forensic chain integrity, cryptographic primitives, and lockdown mechanics.

Registered with the Spanish Intellectual Property Registry.

  • Expediente: 8NT20260502456 (admitted 27 April 2026)
  • Author: Miguel Angel Concha Estrada
  • Name: AEGIS -- Sistema Autonomo de Ciberdefensa Post-Cuantica

GPL v3: free to use, study, modify, and distribute. Derivative works must remain open source under the same license.

AEGIS is open to contributions. Priority areas:

  • New detection vectors for C3 (Detector layer)
  • Additional honeypot types for C2 (Minefield)
  • Adapters for different deployment environments
  • Performance improvements for the E1 known limit
  • Translations and documentation

Two architectural constraints are non-negotiable: fire-and-forget on C3 (never block the proxy path), and immutability on C1 (twin jumps are forensic evidence).

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