Q-NeuroShield: A Post Quantum Cryptographic Framework for Preserving Neural Sovereignty in Brain-Computer Interfaces

Abstract

We are rapidly becoming integrated with the machines that which has appeared as a medical fantasy just a few years back is now beginning to appear as a medical fact. Such an integration, however, is what is scary, the Glass Mind. But now we have an apostate, invisible menace, which I may call, Harvest Now, Decrypt Later. Here, our opponents steal our encrypted neural scans — the specifics of our focus of effort, the specifics of our mood or even our interior monologue — and simply bide their time. They are awaiting the coming of quantum computers that will inevitably crack the current encryption to exist within the world and they will be in a position to peep into the history of our own individual mind. The stakes are purely human. Just as you can never replace a credit card number, you can never reform your brain. When you have been compromised in terms of your neural patterns, there will be no more mental privacy. In order to save the sanctity of the self, the use of Q-NeuroShield has been suggested in this paper. This design is surpassing the traditional protection to Post-Quantum Cryptography, that is, CRYSTALS-Kyber algorithm. You can think of it as a geometrical (lattice) mathematical armour which is an amalgamation of extremely complex and high-dimensional geometric structures that will never be punctured by any possible future quantum processors. It is in this type of encryption that neural data is retained vividly on the machine before its exit is made out of the body. Q-NeuroShield is not a technical document but a promise of a picture of Neural Sovereignty — a guarantee that the future of connected thinking will not be a mass broadcast but a monument to the privacy.