9.2 Ghost Serpent
Decoy traffic that buries the pattern of your day.
Cover traffic woven around your real signal so the shape of your communication reveals nothing. Unlocked with Shadow.
- Pad ladder 9 buckets
- Ladder span 256 B – 64 KiB
- Decoy payload crypto-random fill
01 / THE COVER — LETTERED
Watch the shape of your day stop being readable.
9.2 / A
Cover woven with real
Ghost Serpent weaves decoy frames around your real signal in both directions — from your device and from the relay — so activity and silence stop looking different, and the rhythm of your day stops being readable from the wire.
- Decoy payload
- Cryptographically random fill — nothing on the wire tells it from ciphertext
- Shaping
- Sized against your recent real traffic
- Direction
- Device and relay both send cover
9.2 / B
Nine sizes for everything
Under the cover sits the universal pad ladder: every envelope — text, photo, clip, or decoy — snaps to one of nine fixed sizes with crypto-random fill, so length testifies to nothing.
- 256 B
- 512 B
- 1 KiB
- 2 KiB
- 4 KiB
- 8 KiB
- 16 KiB
- 32 KiB
- 64 KiB
91
size buckets — shared by real and decoy envelopes alike
9.2 / C
The honest limit
Cover raises the cost of pattern analysis against realistic observers. It does not defeat a truly global passive adversary — no shipped messenger’s cover does, and we say so.
- Claim
- Cost-raising — never “impossible”
- Scope
- Cover on the messenger connection; bulk-transport constant-rate cover is a v1.1 item, not shipped today
- Price
- Some battery and data — the honest cost of cover
A shape that testifies to nothing about your day.
02 / THE VERDICT — CATEGORY COLUMNS
Set cover against a bare encrypted connection.
| QERYX Ghost Serpent | Classical E2E | SMS-tier | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Real workloads | |||
| Traffic-pattern analysis | Cover + uniform buckets degrade it | Message timing and size exposed | Full call-record patterns |
| Burst activity visible | Buried in cover | Visible spike | Visible spike |
| Message size inference | 9 fixed buckets | Approximate length leaks | Exact length |
| Global passive adversary | Honest no-claim — cost raised | Not included | Not included |
03 / ACCESS — THROUGH THE COMPARTMENT
Reach it through the Shadow compartment.
Ghost Serpent ships inside the Shadow tier, alongside QSeal and Shadow ID. Nothing in this build is purchasable; the tier ladder is set out on pricing.
Request an invite04 / THE HARD QUESTIONS
Ask what cover does not defeat.
What does an observer see?
Sealed envelopes in the same size buckets at smoothed times — with cover woven in, message count and rhythm stop tracking your real activity.
Does this defeat a global passive adversary?
No claim of that. Cover raises the cost of pattern analysis against realistic observers; a truly global correlator is beyond any shipped messenger’s promise — we say so.
Does decoy traffic cost me battery and data?
Yes, some — that is the honest price of cover.
Can the server tell decoys from messages?
The relay can — it discards decoy frames on arrival instead of storing them. The observer on the wire cannot: real and decoy travel as identically shaped encrypted frames on the identical connection. Ghost Serpent is aimed at the wire.
What can be handed over under subpoena?
Sealed envelopes and routing metadata — now with a shape that testifies to nothing about your day.