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Three protections are live. Three more are being built.

The short versionThe connection between your devices and Serene is already protected with post-quantum encryption today. The deeper protections for the codes that open your home, and for the records I hand to emergency services, are what I am building next, and I will only ever tell you what is actually live.

Protecting you today

01 to 03

These are live right now, not promises.

  1. 01Live

    Post-quantum connection

    Every connection between your browser or app and Serene is protected with a hybrid post-quantum key exchange (a NIST-standardized method combining today's proven encryption with the new quantum-resistant one). Recording it now does not help an attacker later.

    Backed by
    NIST ML-KEM, run in hybrid with today's key exchange
  2. 02Live

    Strong encryption at rest

    Your stored data is encrypted with AES-256, the same standard governments use for top-secret information, which quantum computers do not meaningfully weaken.

    Backed by
    AES-256
  3. 03Live

    Phishing-resistant sign-in for my systems

    Staff access to the systems that hold your data uses passkeys tied to a registered device and a fingerprint or face, so there is no staff password to steal, guess, or phish. Your own account signs in with a password plus an independent backup code today.

    Backed by
    Passkeys bound to a registered device

Rolling out

04 to 06

These are my standard and my commitment. I am building them in stages, and I will not describe any of them as finished until they are.

  1. 04Rolling out

    A vault for the codes that open your home, that even I cannot read

    Gate PINs, alarm codes, lockbox combinations, and camera logins will be sealed with hybrid post-quantum encryption and held so that only your authorized operators can unlock them. If my own servers were ever breached, an attacker would find scrambled data, not your codes. A bank does not hold the keys to your house, and neither will a compromised Serene.

    Backed by
    Hybrid post-quantum encryption, operator-held keys
  2. 05Rolling out

    Passkey sign-in for your account

    The same passwordless, phishing-resistant sign-in that protects my own access today, extended to customer accounts.

    Backed by
    Passkeys bound to a registered device
  3. 06Rolling out

    A tamper-evident, quantum-signed record for emergencies

    When I provide information to emergency services, it will carry a sealed, quantum-signed, independently time-stamped record that any third party can verify on their own, so what I handled cannot be quietly altered after the fact, and the seal stays trustworthy for decades.

    Backed by
    NIST ML-DSA signatures, independent time stamp

Standards, in plain termsThe methods I use are the ones the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) finalized in 2024 for the quantum era (ML-KEM for encryption keys, ML-DSA for signatures), used in a hybrid so my protection is never weaker than today's proven encryption, only stronger.

What is the quantum threat, really?

Why the coming generation of computers matters for the data that protects your home, and exactly what I do about it, today versus what I am rolling out.

I protect homes. That means I hold some of the most sensitive information there is about you: where your cameras are, the codes to your gates and alarm, the layout of your property, and the record of who came and went. I treat that data like it has to stay safe not just this year, but for the whole time you live in your home. That is why I plan for a threat most companies are still ignoring: quantum computing.

Today's encryption relies on math that ordinary computers cannot undo in any reasonable amount of time. A large enough quantum computer, once it exists, could undo some of that math. Nobody has built one that can yet, and credible estimates put it years away. But there is a catch that makes it a today problem, not just a tomorrow problem:

"Harvest now, decrypt later." Someone can record encrypted data today and simply store it, waiting for the day a quantum computer can open it. So anything that must stay private for years, like the codes to your home, needs protection that will still hold up years from now, starting now.

Here is the reassuring part, and it is the honest one: not everything is exposed this way. A password you type to log in is only useful in the moment. But the layout of your home and the code to your gate are secrets for the life of the property. I focus the strongest protection exactly where it belongs.

What this means for you

You do not have to do anything

The connection protection is automatic, and the rest happens on my side.

I protect the long-lived secrets hardest

Because the code to your home should stay private for as long as it opens your home.

I will not oversell it

You will not hear me say "unhackable" or "quantum-proof," because no honest security company can promise that. I will tell you precisely what is live and what is coming, which is what this page is.

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