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AI-BOUNDARY-2.0 · 2026-11-02

New in the system: security centre and the AI boundary at the moment before execution

The immo.quick Serverless Edition checks the protected execution path immediately before the called function runs its first instruction. This boundary applies to human calls as well as calls from functions and workflows. It does not grant an AI agent an execution right. The publisher reported the following internally tested state on 2 November 2026.

Security centre

The overview reads its state from runtime checks: integrity seal and audit chain, cryptographic schemes, permitted connection destinations, logins and sessions, key provenance without key values, runtime permissions and the AI boundary. A snapshot can be captured with a receipt.

Incidents and reporting deadlines

Each handling step is recorded with a receipt. The system calculates configured reporting deadlines and records the authority and case reference. A human submits the notification. An incident can only be closed once all required notifications are recorded. The statutory timing anchors and scope limits are explained below the cards.

End sessions immediately

An administrator can end all sessions of an account together. Only the owner can end the owner’s sessions. Session revocation remains a separate access control.

AI only up to the execution boundary

Every use of AI must be registered. Unregistered use is rejected. Verdicts and approvals are removed from AI responses. An AI response establishes neither a domain approval nor an execution right.

The moment before execution

AI never holds an execution right in this system. There is therefore no AI kill switch as a system feature. Immediately before a protected execution function runs its first instruction, the runtime checks the input. A call by an AI agent, or AI-origin input without human confirmation for that exact function, is rejected. The rejected operation is not executed. Its rejection receives a receipt recording BLOCK, the function reference and “nothing executed”. Human confirmation does not replace other authority or execution checks.

AI agents submit proposals only

An AI agent’s proposals have no direct effect. The agent cannot call an execution function, cause a data change or grant approval. It never becomes an administrator. Only the owner may designate an account as an AI agent.

Software bill of materials

The reported software bill of materials contains 746 components, each with a pinned version and checksum. This inventory is version-specific and is not an external security certification.

Evidence and verification limits

The publisher reports a fully passing internal test suite and 46 AI guardrail checks, including adversarial tests. Rejection tests observed no database writes by the rejected execution path. The rejection receipt documents this boundary; it is not execution permission. An external penetration test has not yet been performed. Internal tests replace neither that assessment nor certification.

Login: the second factor is disabled in the reported state by the owner’s decision. This is a documented operating setting, not a statement that institutional authentication requirements have been met.

Reporting deadlines with explicit starting points

NIS2 · Article 23

For significant incidents, the general sequence is an early warning within 24 hours and an incident notification within 72 hours of awareness. The final report is due within one month after the incident notification. Ongoing incidents and trust services have specific rules; applicable national implementation governs.

EUR-Lex · NIS2 · Article 23
DORA · Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/301, Article 5

Initial notification as early as possible, within four hours of classification as a major ICT-related incident and generally within 24 hours of awareness. If classification occurs after those 24 hours, the four-hour period runs from classification. Statutory follow-up reporting deadlines must be considered separately.

EUR-Lex · DORA · Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/301, Article 5
GDPR · Article 33

A notifiable personal data breach must be reported without undue delay and, where feasible, within 72 hours of awareness. The exception for breaches unlikely to pose a risk, and the requirement to explain a late notification, remain applicable.

EUR-Lex · GDPR · Article 33

New: Which cyber protections apply automatically once the Serverless Edition is connected through its API: Cybersecurity via API →

SECURITY BOUNDARY · ARCHITECTURE BEFORE REACTION

TWO SECURITY BOUNDARIES. BEFORE ENTRY. BEFORE EFFECT.

immo.quick separates access from execution authority. A request must first pass the relevant entry boundary; even successful access does not yet authorise a productive effect.

01 · CORE™Admission Boundary

Core™ places a fail-closed access guardian in front of the governance and compliance pipeline. If a required validation condition fails, the request never reaches the downstream governance logic.

02 · SERVERLESS™Edge Client Attestation

Die Serverless Edition™ already requires a valid attestation of a registered client at the edge before the request reaches the downstream gate path.

03 · ERIExecution Boundary

Access is not authority. A productive effect requires a valid, current and scope-bound execution right and an executable capability.

REQUEST→ADMISSION BOUNDARY→GOVERNED STATE→EXECUTION RIGHT→REAL EFFECT

Claim boundary: Only the architecture of immo.quick Serverless Edition™ was demonstrably submitted to the BSI on 28 July 2026. Core™ was not submitted to the BSI. The submission is not a BSI review, certification, recognition or endorsement.

Two systems. Clear architecture boundaries.

The immo.quick Serverless Edition™ uses no Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) and no enclaves. TEE and enclave technologies are used exclusively in immo.quick Core™. The two products are independent systems. Core™ is not a prerequisite for the Serverless Edition™.

The Serverless Edition™ checks defined conditions at the integrated execution path and records the decision in cryptographically verifiable evidence. TEE attestation is not part of its architecture. Hardware-backed isolation and enclave attestation belong to the Core™ architecture profile.

immo.quick Serverless Edition™ · immo.quick Core™

// CYBERSECURITY · POST-QUANTUM · ML-KEM · ML-DSA

A threat recorded today and decrypted tomorrow.

A sufficiently powerful quantum computer does not exist yet. The risk it poses already exists today, because encrypted traffic can be recorded now and decrypted later. We meet exactly that risk with hybrid post-quantum cryptography, ML-KEM and ML-DSA per FIPS 203 and 204, in addition to classical cryptography, not instead of it.

FIPS 203 / 204 HYBRID, NOT REPLACEMENT
→ Deeper technical view: Shor vs. Grover, the signature stack in detail
// The basics

What quantum computing actually means for encryption.

A classical computer essentially checks possible solutions one after another. A quantum computer uses quantum-mechanical effects to approach certain mathematical problems in a structurally different way, no advantage for most everyday tasks, a fundamental advantage for a small number of specific mathematical problems.

THE PROBLEM
Shor's Algorithm
A quantum algorithm published in 1994 that can efficiently solve the mathematical problems underlying RSA and elliptic-curve cryptography, factoring large numbers and discrete logarithms. A sufficiently large, error-corrected quantum computer would structurally break these methods, not merely slow them down.
THE STATE TODAY
No cryptographically relevant machine yet
The quantum computers that exist today are far from the scale and error correction required to break RSA or ECC. That is a statement of fact, not an all-clear, because the relevant question is not whether the machine exists today, but how long data encrypted today needs to stay secret.
Harvest Now, Decrypt Later
An attacker does not need to own the quantum computer today to attack today. Encrypted traffic intercepted and stored now can be decrypted years later, once the computing power exists. For data with a long protection period, ten years of retention, as with every receipt in this system, that is not a hypothetical risk, it is one already running.
// What we do

Hybrid post-quantum cryptography, not a swap.

We do not replace classical cryptography with post-quantum methods, we combine both. An attacker would then have to break both the classical and the new mathematical problem at the same time, not just one of the two.

The first line of defence is already quantum-resistant
The internal chain integrity of every receipt rests on HMAC-SHA256, a symmetric method with a pre-shared key, not on public-key cryptography. Shor's algorithm, which would structurally break RSA and ECC, does not even apply here, because there is no factorisation or discrete logarithm problem to attack. Grover's algorithm, which does act on symmetric methods, only reduces effective security to half the key length, at our key lengths that remains a practically unreachable number of operations. The Merkle chain itself rests on SHA-256, which by current understanding is considered quantum-resistant well beyond the middle of the century.
ML-KEM
FIPS 203
Key exchange. Module-lattice-based key encapsulation mechanism, derived from CRYSTALS-Kyber, used alongside classical RSA or ECDH key exchange when establishing a shared secret.
ML-DSA
FIPS 204
Additional signature layer, not a replacement. Module-lattice-based signature scheme (ML-DSA-87). Every new receipt carries it in addition to Ed25519. Existing receipts are never re-signed; they are protected by the chain and the daily roots. A system built exclusively on RSA would have to re-sign every historical artefact during a post-quantum migration, breaking the chain of evidence. Here, the additional layer can be applied while the existing chain remains unchanged.
Ed25519
Classical signature, stays active. The existing, portable verification class for external verifiability remains, post-quantum methods complement it, they do not replace it.

This means for every receipt: an attacker with a quantum computer breaks the classical signature, but not the post-quantum signature. An attacker who finds a still-unknown weakness in the comparatively young lattice-based method breaks the new signature, but not the classical one. Breaking both simultaneously is the actual security threshold, not either one alone.

Continuity instead of re-signing
A system built exclusively on classical public-key cryptography would have to re-sign every historical artefact during a post-quantum migration, breaking the chain of evidence at exactly the point where it matters most. Because our internal chain integrity already rests on the quantum-resistant HMAC-SHA256, the post-quantum signature layer can be added on top without touching the existing chain. Not an absolute claim of uniqueness, but a structural advantage that follows from the architecture itself, not from a promise made after the fact.
→ See Quantum Security in detail
// Why now

The timeline is already running, independent of the machine.

2024
NIST finalises FIPS 203, 204, 205
After an eight-year public evaluation process starting in 2016, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology finalises the first three post-quantum standards in August 2024.
ONGOING
Encrypted traffic is already being harvested today
The harvest-now-decrypt-later risk is not a forecast, it describes behaviour that can already be happening now, independent of when the matching decryption capability becomes available.
2030
NSA migration deadline for national security systems
The NSA's Commercial National Security Algorithm Suite 2.0 sets 2030 as the mandatory migration deadline for US National Security Systems, a regulatory reference point, not our own deadline.
// Where we stand

Already ahead of what is currently required.

Neither NIS2 nor DORA nor the eIDAS 2.0 provisions currently mandate a post-quantum migration. The hybrid combination of ML-KEM, ML-DSA, and the already quantum-resistant HMAC-SHA256 is already active for us, not as a reaction to an obligation, but ahead of one. The same direction, post-quantum cryptography and zero-trust architecture as a modernisation priority, also appears in the US federal cyber strategy published in March 2026, alongside the NIST SP 800-207 Zero Trust framework. We are not following a single rule after the fact, we already sit on the line several major frameworks are converging toward at the same time.

// Key Custody

Keys that never leave the server.

The Serverless Edition's signing keys are generated locally on the own server. They are never displayed, never transmitted and do not sit with a cloud provider. Every receipt carries two signatures, Ed25519 and ML-DSA-87, and is valid only if both verify. The daily root over all receipts of a day additionally carries SLH-DSA-SHA2-256s.

Local
own server
Generated and kept on the own server. If the keys are missing, the System issues no receipt. It never carries on with a substitute key.
Issuance block
crypto
A compromised scheme is blocked immediately. If a scheme is marked as compromised, the System stops issuing with it. Instead of a result there is a technical abort with a failure record and an alarm.
Unchanged
old receipts
Existing receipts are never re-signed. They remain protected by the chain and the post-quantum signatures of the daily roots.
Shamir only as a tool
Shamir key splitting (3 of 5) exists in the System only as a tool for key recovery and its drills. It is not part of the signing path.
// Infrastructure & incident response

Active in two regions, without a US hyperscaler.

Infrastructure runs on Hetzner (DE), IONOS (DE) and OVH (FR), deliberately without a US hyperscaler, to structurally avoid the reach of the US Cloud Act rather than negotiate around it contractually. Two regions run active-active in parallel, a third provides asynchronous geographic replication for disaster recovery.

TOPOLOGY
Active-active, bilateral
Two independent regions handle requests simultaneously, mutual TLS between backend services, strict egress policies, no persistently open connections. Serverless™ functions and containerless workers scale horizontally, queueing manages backpressure under load spikes.
FAILOVER
Compromise of a region
If a host or region fails or is compromised, the second active-active region takes over, a forensic snapshot analysis of the affected region runs in parallel. The append-only ledger cannot be altered retroactively at any point, regardless of what happens to the compromised region.

In a security incident the compromised-scheme issuance block acts first: affected schemes are blocked, issuance aborts technically and is logged with an alarm. Every step is itself recorded in the ledger.

// Clarification

What this does not mean.

  • Not a replacement for general cybersecurity. Post-quantum cryptography protects against one specific, future mathematical attack, it does not replace access control, network security, or organisational diligence.
  • No claim that every cyber risk is eliminated. Lattice-based methods are well studied, but younger than RSA or ECC, the hybrid combination is exactly why it is the more cautious choice, not a superfluous one.
  • No certification by NIST or the NSA. We implement the published standards, we make no claim of certification by the standard-setters themselves.

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ACATS · RED-TEAM VERIFICATION

Internally tested. Externally confirmed. Externally reproduced.

120 modeled attack scenarios against the Authority boundary. 105 expected-negative tests, 15 positive controls, 0 unexpected failures. The external tester supervised and confirmed the internal assessment and independently reproduced the same test state in a separate external execution.

120/1200 unexpected failures8× S5 blockedRELEASE_READY
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