About Oumuamua Labs
Oumuamua Labs is an applied cryptography research lab focused on privacy. We build zero-knowledge proving systems that run on the user's own device, where the private data already is.
Privacy happens on the device. Secrets never leave it.
What we stand for
Zero-knowledge means zero knowledge
Some protocols use the name for succinct proofs that hide nothing at all. A Hekate proof reveals the statement it proves and nothing about the private data behind it.
Prove where the secret lives
A cloud prover has to receive your private data to build a proof, and its operator sees all of it. Hekate runs in-process on phones and edge hardware with bounded memory. The data stays on the device.
Servers only touch public data
Some work does belong on servers. Charon wraps and accumulates proofs that are already zero-knowledge. The service receives public data only and never sees a secret.
Open where it matters for trust
Verifiers, constraints and programs are open source. Anyone can read what a proof states and verify it on their own machine.
What we build
Team
Protocol Architect · Cryptography
Designs and builds the zero-knowledge proof engines Hekate and Charon, from the binary-field arithmetic up. Writes the lab's research articles and postmortems.
The lab is independent and bootstrapped. All code is written in Rust, with constant-time arithmetic and memory bounded by design.
Researchers and engineers who want to work on the stack or collaborate on a paper can write to info@oumuamua.dev.