HTTPZ
HTTPZ is a protocol that uses Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) to provide end-to-end encryption, ensuring privacy across transmission, storage, and computation.
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HTTPZ is a protocol that uses Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) to provide end-to-end encryption, ensuring privacy across transmission, storage, and computation.
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HTTP has been the backbone of the Internet since its inception, enabling data transfer between clients and servers. Introduced in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee, HTTP/0.9 evolved into HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1, which added important features like status codes and persistent connections to improve performance.
As the need for security grew, HTTPS was introduced in 1994, adding SSL/TLS encryption to secure data transmission. HTTPS enabled authentication, reducing spoofing risks and making the web more trustworthy.
The evolution continued with HTTP/2 (2015), which improved performance through multiplexing and server push, and HTTP/3 (2020), which enhanced speed and reliability using the QUIC protocol.
Today, HTTPS is the standard for web security, but as internet applications become more complex, traditional security models can’t meet emerging demands. Enter HTTPZ—the next-generation protocol designed to support more advanced encryption technologies, including Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) and zero-trust architecture, creating a more secure and privacy-preserving internet.
Despite HTTPS providing encryption during transmission, it still relies on a trust model that exposes data during processing and storage. Sensitive data must often be decrypted for cloud services and servers to process, leaving it vulnerable.
Additionally, HTTPS is not built for decentralized applications (dApps), AI-driven solutions, or quantum-resilient systems. As the internet moves toward blockchain, AI, and quantum computing, these technologies require new encryption models capable of protecting data across its entire lifecycle—not just in transit.
HTTPZ addresses these challenges with a zero-trust architecture and privacy-preserving computations, using FHE to keep data encrypted throughout processing. This new protocol enables secure, decentralized applications and quantum-safe encryption, paving the way for a more secure and privacy-first internet.
HTTPZ is a protocol that uses Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) to provide end-to-end encryption, ensuring privacy across transmission, storage, and computation.
We are at the cusp of a technological revolution. As AI, quantum computing, and decentralized networks rapidly evolve, traditional internet protocols no longer suffice. HTTPZ, powered by Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE), is designed for this new era. It enables end-to-end encryption across the entire lifecycle of data—during transmission, storage, and computation—ensuring privacy at every step.
Unlike HTTPS, which only protects data during transit, HTTPZ ensures that data remains encrypted throughout. With FHE, even when data is processed—whether by a server or cloud—there is no need to decrypt it. This guarantees privacy without reliance on intermediaries or trust.
Take medical data: a hospital uploads encrypted genetic data for analysis. With traditional HTTPS, the data must be decrypted for processing, exposing sensitive information. With HTTPZ, the data stays encrypted, and results are returned in encrypted form, with no access to the raw data by the cloud provider.
HTTPZ isn’t just about encryption; it’s about privacy-preserving computation. Through secure multiparty computation and advanced cryptography, it builds a framework where privacy is a guarantee, not a promise. It’s the foundation for a truly zero-trust internet.
FHE-Powered Computing
End-to-End Encryption
Zero-Trust Architecture
Decentralization and Blockchain Integration
Quantum Resistance
In the context of HTTPZ, Mind Network, as a pioneer of Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE), has partnered with FHE leaders (Zama, Fhenix, Inco) to introduce the Citizen Z concept as a universal application layer under the HTTPZ protocol, driving personal autonomy and decentralization.
CitizenZ: Redefine the Digital Citizen Right in the era of HTTPZ
The Citizen Z concept draws inspiration from Friedrich Hayek's idea of a free market, as well as Rees-Mogg and Davidson's principles in The Sovereign Individual. Hayek advocated for minimizing external control and maximizing individual freedom, while The Sovereign Individual emphasizes applying this freedom in the Information Age (similar to the Intelligence Age).
Thus, we propose the core principles of Citizen Z:
Universality: Anyone, regardless of gender, race, nationality, or belief, can become a Citizen Z and enjoy equal rights.
Digital Sovereignty: Full ownership and control over personal digital assets such as speech, data, and tokens.
Voting Rights: Protected rights to express one's will freely, vote, and participate in consensus-building.
Ultimate Form: Citizen Z represents the social realization of the HTTPZ protocol.
The goal of Citizen Z is to foster personal autonomy in the Intelligence Age, empowering individuals to engage in public affairs and express their will without external interference or intermediaries, truly democratizing the digital society. By integrating Web3 and AI Agents, Citizen Z enables individuals to self-manage and protect their data, participate in governance.
Citizen Z is the social realization of HTTPZ, enabling digital sovereignty and privacy through decentralized governance, where individuals control their identities and assets without external interference.
HTTPZ, powered by FHE and zero-trust architecture, establishes the foundation for next-generation digital infrastructure. Mind Network, through its implementation of HTTPZ's core principles, is pioneering this transformation with real-world applications.
FCN/FDN: Delivers encrypted computation and decryption through FHE, enabling secure consensus building
AI Agent: Built on HTTPZ's zero-trust foundation and FHE's encrypted computation capabilities, ensuring end-to-end privacy in agent interactions.
DeAI: FHE enables encrypted AI model training and inference across decentralized nodes.
GPU: Enables trustless collaboration in distributed GPU networks while maintaining computational privacy and fairness.
DeSci: FHE enables encrypted data sharing and secure collaboration in DeSci networks, with verifiable results via blockchain.
Storage: With FHE, decentralized storage solutions guarantee both data security and encrypted computation.
DePin: FHE powers secure data processes and ensures fairness in resource distribution across DePIN networks.
Asset Management: FHE encrypts the chain abstraction process, ensuring secure and efficient asset operations across networks while providing compliant security support for complex international transactions.
Gaming: FHE provides true randomness and fair loot drops in gaming.
With Web3 and HTTPZ, users gain control over their digital assets and data, avoiding centralized control and abuse. AI Agents can assist in decision-making, such as in Mind Network AI health hub, where users anonymously share health data, and AI provides personalized recommendations while ensuring privacy through FHE encryption.
Vitalik highlighted two major challenges for the coming decades:
https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/01/05/dacc2.html
The technological wave: The rise of superintelligence will bring unprecedented challenges to human life.
Collaboration concerns: People are often inclined to pursue personal interests, hindering large-scale cooperation.
With the backdrop of HTTPZ, we can consider both of these issues.
Whether it’s brain-machine interfaces or AGI, superintelligence is built on collaboration and communication. Just like HTTPS today, in the future, we will need a more powerful and secure protocol, which will be called HTTPZ.
Superintelligence requires not only collaboration between AI agents but also a sufficiently secure communication protocol, which is exactly what HTTPZ can provide.
“Creation is easy, use is easy, security is hard.”
On the collaboration front, especially in large-scale cooperation, security is crucial. For example, if Figma were to crash or expose a security vulnerability, it would devastate designers and UX professionals worldwide.
Furthermore, imagine a scenario where you accidentally disclose sensitive information—such as your private key, home address, or bank details—while chatting with ChatGPT. Yet, you have no choice but to do so. You are left balancing security and efficiency.
But with HTTPZ, maintaining full encryption means that even if GPT helps you with all your questions, it still won't know "what you're asking," because the data remains encrypted.
This is what we aim for: whether it's cryptocurrency, AI, or HTTPZ, these are powerful tools driving us toward a better future.
