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EFPIX: A zero-trust encrypted flood protocol

Cryptography and Security 2026-01-07 v3 Networking and Internet Architecture

Abstract

We propose EFPIX (Encrypted Flood Protocol for Information eXchange), a flood-based relay communication protocol that achieves end-to-end encryption, plausible deniability for users, and untraceable messages while hiding metadata, such as sender and receiver, from those not involved. It also has built-in spam resistance and multiple optional enhancements. It can be used in privacy-critical communication, infrastructure-loss scenarios, space/research/military communication, where central servers are infeasible, or general-purpose messaging.

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@article{arxiv.2509.08248,
  title  = {EFPIX: A zero-trust encrypted flood protocol},
  author = {Arin Upadhyay},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.08248},
  year   = {2026}
}
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