Networks that look like noise to everyone but you.
Xaoc Industries builds post-quantum secure communications from Leamington, Ontario. Our QNyx protocol carries encrypted traffic at multi-gigabit speed, with no readable headers on the wire.
What we build
One protocol at the centre, with products and infrastructure growing around it.
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QNyx
A post-quantum secure transport written from the ground up in Rust. One userspace binary for Linux and Android, in server and client modes.
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CrosLink
A mesh overlay network built on QNyx, managed from the QCore desktop controller through a relay that cannot read your configuration.
Now Available
QNyx moves more data than WireGuard-go on the same line.
On one host and one 10 Gbps link, QNyx carried 5.17 Gbps of post-quantum encrypted traffic against 3.94 Gbps for WireGuard-go, about 31% more.
- About 1 MB, all userspaceA single Rust binary. No kernel modules. Runs on Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W class hardware.
- Live on three continentsA working mesh across Canada, the UK and Australia carries our own office network and has run for months, which is why we count QNyx at technology readiness level 7.
- Rekeys without dropping trafficSessions rekey every 15 minutes. Thousands of cycles in testing, zero drops.
- Identity is a key, not an accountPeers are bound to cryptographic keypairs. There are no passwords to phish.
Bars are scaled to a 10 Gbps line. Measured with iperf3, a single stream for 10 seconds, on the same Xeon Silver host and link for every run. QNyx is a userspace implementation, so WireGuard-go is the like-for-like comparison; kernel WireGuard was not tested.
Cryptography
QNyx uses the CNSA 2.0 algorithm suite for key establishment, identity and encryption, with its own mutually authenticated handshake rather than TLS. We have filed a Canadian patent on HF7-KEM-AEAD, our post-quantum cryptographic suite, and are preparing a paper for the IACR ePrint archive.
From a Python prototype to a production protocol
William Appleton founds Xaoc Industries.
QNyx development begins. The protocol grows out of JormungandrPQVPN, an earlier Python project, and is redesigned from the ground up in Rust.
Xaoc Industries Inc. is federally incorporated in Canada.
QNyx reaches 5.17 Gbps on a 10 Gbps line.
QCtrl API and QCore bring zero-trust fleet management.
Founded by William Appleton
William is Xaoc’s founder, chief scientist and chairman. He has spent more than fifteen years in cybersecurity and infrastructure, and started Xaoc in May 2025 to take post-quantum networking from research to field deployment.
He designs the protocols, writes the Rust, and runs the test networks himself. The QNyx operator’s manual is written for network technicians who are not cryptographers, because the people deploying it should not need to be.
- Security engineeringPenetration testing, PCI-DSS consulting, and custom tooling for live ransomware and state-sponsored intrusion investigations.
- Infrastructure and networkingEnterprise networks, virtualization, backup and disaster recovery across manufacturing, agriculture and managed-service environments.
- Cryptography and protocol designPost-quantum systems, from handshake design to benchmarking and field validation.
- Wireless5G radio access networks, software-defined radio and ISED spectrum licensing.
- EducationOntario Advanced Diploma in Computer Security and Digital Investigations.