01 / Research Object
Anonymous communication under dynamic conditions.
Shye studies anonymous communication protocols. Its first public preprint presents a heartbeat-driven protocol core for hop-by-hop random forwarding in changing decentralized networks where a sender cannot rely on a stable global relay directory to preconstruct a complete path.
The first paper is public on Zenodo as a preprint. This page links the paper and describes its research position and scope; definitions, models and arguments are in the manuscript. Visit the Studio project page for project updates.
Zenodo preprint v1.0.6 · 2026-10-05
The permanent DOI links the public record and both PDFs.
02 / Public Paper
The first paper, open to read.
The paper presents a heartbeat-driven protocol core for hop-by-hop random forwarding, covering eligibility, local selection and handoff authorization. The details below identify the public Zenodo v1.0.6 record.
Shye: A Heartbeat-Driven Protocol Core for Hop-by-Hop Random Forwarding in Adversarial Decentralized Networks
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03 / Intended Destination
The destination is verifiability, not a slogan.
The intended state of Shye is a “verifiable research protocol”.
Theory, engineering and experiment must correspond to one another. If one part is incomplete, the other two cannot stand in as evidence for it.
04 / Research Scope
Claims and assumptions, made public together.
The paper focuses on the protocol core and states both the conditions behind its properties and the capabilities they do not establish.
- It is not a production protocol or a deployable service.
- The manuscript states eligibility soundness, transcript-relative honest selection, rooted authorization continuity and bounded honest propagation, with a limited scope.
- These properties do not establish end-to-end anonymity or guaranteed delivery. Deployment-specific admission, randomness, privacy and performance require separate mechanisms and evaluation.
- The transparent state proof still grows linearly with transitions; a bounded receipt window does not imply a constant-size proof.
This scope is summarized from the public record. Read the manuscript for complete definitions, assumptions and arguments.
05 / Status & Discussion
The research continues; the conclusions remain open.
Discussion, criticism and review can now address the questions, assumptions, protocol core and scope of claims in the public preprint.
Questions, models and validation work continue.
Both the English manuscript and Chinese reference are available through Zenodo.