AETHER // GHOST PROTOCOL v2.1
Your Infrastructure Has A Fixed Address. Attackers Know It.
Aether Security replaces static endpoints with a quantum-seeded moving target. No fixed IP. No predictable pattern. No stable attack surface.
ATTACK SURFACE COMPARISON
What Happens When They Scan You
Shodan indexed your current infrastructure within hours of provisioning. We verified this ourselves.
TARGET: STATIC INFRASTRUCTURE
TARGET: AETHER ENHANCED
This is real hardware. This job ID is verifiable on IBM Quantum Network.
THE DEFENSE STACK
Three Integrated Systems. One Quantum Foundation.
AETHER-PREDATOR
Quantum Red Team Engine · Two Engagement Models, Not Interchangeable
Live Engagement
Full-scope offensive security against a live, authorized target — OSINT, network reconnaissance, website and infrastructure exploitation modeling. Run by Aether operators only. Never self-serve.
Tests: 329 combined · Patent-pending approach · Entropy layer: Protocol-L
AETHER-SCRAMBLER
Ghost Protocol v2.1 · The Moving Mesh
The one piece of this stack that’s live, commercial, and running on real infrastructure today.
Adjustable Entropy Source
3,000,000+ states is our published figure at 30-qubit. IBM Fez scales to 156-qubit — we don’t publish a states count above what we’ve actually benchmarked.
Rotation, Illustrated · Example Mesh
Example topology, not our real internal infrastructure. Hover a node.
AETHER PROTOCOL
Cryptographic Commitment Layer · Powers Both Products
Quantum — IBM hardware entropy. Feeds both Predator and Scrambler.
ALL THREE SHARE ONE IBM QUANTUM SESSION — Job ID: d6sonabbjfas73fonq3g
THREAT MATRIX
What We Defend Against
VOLUMETRIC DDOS
High-bandwidth flood attacks
IP FINGERPRINTING
Scanner-based reconnaissance
TIMING CORRELATION
Traffic analysis & pattern matching
BOTNET EXHAUSTION
Distributed brute-force attacks
CREDENTIAL STUFFING
Automated credential replay
SESSION HIJACKING
Token theft & replay
DEFENSE PRICING
Choose Your Defense Posture
AETHER SHIELD
- ✓ Ghost Protocol MTD
- ✓ 3M+ surface states
- ✓ Shared 3-VPS rotation
- ✓ Quantum tarpit
- ✓ Pooled IBM session
SLA: Best effort
AETHER FORTRESS
- ✓ Everything in Shield
- ✓ Dedicated VPS cluster
- ✓ Dedicated IBM session
- ✓ 99.9% SLA
- ✓ Monthly security review
SLA: 99.9% uptime
AETHER ENTERPRISE
- ✓ Full source license
- ✓ Protocol source (C/L/T)
- ✓ Scrambler source
- ✓ On-prem deployment
- ✓ Dedicated account manager
- ✓ White-label rights
First Fortress client: 3 months at $500/mo with case study agreement
OFFENSE // PREDATOR
Choose Your Offense Posture
Two engagement models — not interchangeable. Live Engagement is full-scope offensive security against a live, authorized target (OSINT included), Aether operators only. Predator CLI is code-vulnerability scanning only, heavily restricted, apply to run it yourself.
Live Engagement · Operator-Led
SINGLE ENGAGEMENT
- ◆ One Predator pentest
- ◆ OSINT + 350 MITRE ATT&CK chains
- ◆ 40-qubit ZZFeatureMap
- ◆ Full engagement report
- ◆ 1B+ states explored
- ◆ 2–4 weeks scoping before engagement starts
MONTHLY RETAINER
- ◆ Up to 4 engagements/mo
- ◆ Priority IBM quantum access
- ◆ Monthly threat surface report
- ◆ Dedicated quantum session
ENTERPRISE SOW
- ◆ Embedded red team
- ◆ Custom MITRE chains
- ◆ White-label reports
- ◆ On-prem deployment
Predator CLI · Apply For Access
AETHER PREDATOR CLI
Not a substitute for a Live Engagement. The CLI runs our code-vulnerability engine only — no network reconnaissance, no OSINT, no live-target capability. Heavily restricted; use outside this scope isn’t supported. A limited number of teams will be accepted to bring the +3.08 CVE-gold benchmark to their own codebase.
- ◆ Code-vulnerability scanning only
- ◆ Runs on infrastructure you control
- ◆ Same engine used in Live Engagement work
VERIFICATION
Defense Intelligence, Not Just Logs
Every rotation reduces to a signed record anyone can check. Here's the shape of one.
| Backend | IBM Fez (156-qubit) |
| Job ID | d6sonabbjfas73fonq3g |
| Session | c7071827 |
| Measured Signal | 58.47 |
| Expected Baseline | 55.72 |
| Deviation | -2.75 |
| Ghost Jumps | 13 |
| Breach | NO |
SHA-256 of the record above
ede01aac4710368035db902d9f70adccc9b9e40723fd916452f7c6070a1272b2
Signed by a quantum-seeded ephemeral key, used once and destroyed. RFC 3161 timestamped for dispute-grade evidence. Reproduce it yourself — SHA-256 of the eight fields above, pipe-joined in order, matches exactly.
This job ID is publicly verifiable on IBM Quantum Network. We do not simulate results — every rotation, every state, every timestamp is hardware-attested.
CVE-Gold Margin · The Crucible Benchmark
+3.08
Hardware-run, 12–14-qubit circuit, graded against real CVE-gold vulnerable code — not a synthetic benchmark.
CodePro Coding Lift · SWE-bench-lite
~2×
Official harness, N=180: 27 vs 14 bugs resolved. Not self-graded — scored by the same suite the repo’s own tests run.
ILLUSTRATIVE PREVIEW
The Mesh Is The Interface
Not a widget on a dashboard — the topology itself, with lenses to change what you're looking at.
Intelligence Stream
Illustrative — sample topology and example data. The deployed dashboard streams your account’s actual mesh.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
For AI platforms, infrastructure providers, and regulated institutions evaluating Protocol-L as a native trust layer.
YOUR ENDPOINT IS STATIC. ATTACKERS ARE PATIENT. QUANTUM PHYSICS IS NOT.
Frequently asked questions
Aether AI is a Florida technology company working across AI frameworks, security, and quantum engineering. We build Aether Security, our commitment-chain protocols, and Aether Cloud (the desktop AI app) — alongside side products like Jane and MealPlanner.
Protocol-C is zero-cost commitment infrastructure seeded by OS kernel entropy (CSPRNG). Protocol-L seeds its keys from IBM Fez quantum hardware for quantum-authenticated commitments.
Aether AI LLC was founded by Brandon Barrante, based in Florida.
Aether is building two orchestrator models — Neo, an efficient coding agent, and Kronus, which taps the best frontier models for top-tier results — designed to work in tandem for larger tasks; not yet available. In the meantime, you can build your own custom agents in the app from standard frontier models.
Yes — it's a desktop-native AI coding environment like Cursor, Lovable, and Claude Code, plus a security layer and an app-wide cryptographic commitment chain across every model and function.
A patent-pending chain of custody, built on Protocol-C, that signs every model and function — chat, workflows, projects, vault, and updates. Each event is hashed with SHA-256 (over a secp256k1 key) and linked to the one before it, so the record is tamper-evident: change anything and every later hash breaks.
Protocol-C log
{ "event": "MCP_POST_EXECUTION", "task_id": "a3f9c7e1", "prompt_hash": "9f86d081…b6e3a2", "result_hash": "2c26b46b…d4f9e1", "chain_prev": "0b7e1a4c…88c2af", "commitment_hash": "e3b0c442…a495991b", "timestamp": 1748707200.482 }Brandon Barrante, a solo founder in Florida (Aether AI LLC). It's in active beta, shipping improvements every week.
Aether AI · Florida · 4 Products · Patent Pending
First Fortress client: 3 months at $500/mo with case study agreement · [email protected]