09/22/2026
Most security white papers tell you how many layers an attacker has to get through.
Ours starts with a section called “What we do not claim.”
Evolving Edge serves content from Edge Nodes - compute in people’s homes that we don’t own. The owner has root, and root beats any software we could write. So we stopped asking how to make the node trustworthy, and asked how little we need to trust it.
For our Level 1 encryption, the answer is: not at all. The node holds ciphertext and no key.
It cannot read what it serves. Neither can we.
The difference between “cannot” and “will not” is the whole paper. A promise not to look can be broken, forgotten, or overridden by whoever buys the company. A missing key can’t.
We also wrote down where that stops working - operator RAM at Level 2, a compression side channel, a defect we’re still fixing, and no compliance certifications yet. You should pick a level based on your threat model, not our marketing.
46 pages. Version 1.0. If you think we got something wrong, we want to hear it.
Two Strangers, One Machine explains how Evolving Edge serves content from hardware we don't own - and lists, in writing, what we don't claim.
