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Foundational Infrastructure for Digital Rights

Mishti Network is an open source protocol for creating cryptographic keys derived from human attributes, such as biometrics, security questions, or other knowledge unique to an individual person. Anyone, anywhere in the world, can use Mishti to easily create secure keys and interact with any blockchain or application as easily as picking up and unlocking your phone.

These keys grant individuals fundamental rights. They allow people to securely manage their assets, verify their identity across different platforms, sign important transactions, and keep their communications private—all without needing to depend on centralized authorities. With these keys, everyone gains the power to protect their privacy, control their own data, and participate freely in decentralized networks, ensuring that their digital rights are respected and upheld.

By granting every human in the world a secure key that only they can hold and control, we move towards global digital inclusion, precisely at a time when advancements in artificial intelligence are poised to leave so many behind.

A Decentralized & Resilient Authentication Service

Mishti makes cryptographic protocols usable, removing the need for trusted parties and secure enclaves to safeguard devices, accounts, and digital assets. The derivation unlocks private homomorphic computation on encrypted biometric data, allowing untrusted third-parties to authenticate users without ever seeing the underlying data. This ushers in new use cases that were never possible before. All the standard human-centric styles of authentication like passwords, security questions, accounts, and biometrics can become decentralized without the dependence on any third party like Apple or Google.

Why Do We Need Human Keys?

Human Keys offer private authentication and distributed key derivation in a seamless, zero-trust environment. By deriving cryptographic keys from unique human attributes, they simplify interactions with crypto protocols, making authentication as easy as facial recognition while ensuring security and privacy with zero-knowledge proofs.

Most new crypto users rely on centralized methods like social logins, which grant control of their crypto accounts to these central authorities. This perpetuates existing power structures and undermines the sovereignty that crypto aims to provide. Decentralized methods like seed phrases are often too cumbersome for mainstream use, making it vital to develop privacy tools that remain decentralized, or risk government and corporate control over user safety.

From Nyms to Keys

Despite years of effort, the industry has struggled to solve the issue of secure, private, and decentralized key management without significant compromises. Mishti addresses this by linking identities to wallets with zero-knowledge technology, ensuring that only the wallet owner or a decentralized network can control or access the wallet. Mishti is a foundational element that supports the mainstream adoption of Web3 while preserving its core values of privacy and decentralization.