alexanderdaly/neurofhe-relay

NeuroFHE Relay is a presentation and research package for an early-stage idea about privacy in event-driven AI. It is not a finished product. The repo combines two specialist areas: neuromorphic systems, which turn raw sensor or signal streams into sparse spike-like events instead of dense data, and homomorphic encryption, often shortened to FHE, which is a kind of cryptography that lets a server compute on data without ever decrypting it. The pitch is that those two ideas fit together at the boundary between local devices and cloud models. The design works in layers. Raw local signals from files, sensors, apps, logs, or simulated streams go through a spike sorter, then a local relay gateway that normalizes them and applies privacy policy. Only an approved, minimal event representation crosses the boundary. An encrypted compute service runs inference or verification on those features, and only a recommendation comes back, which the gateway then turns into safe local action. The raw payloads never leave the device. The author is careful about what to claim. The README says the project does not run FHE bootstrapping directly on neuromorphic chips, which would not be defensible today. The defensible near-term framing is a hybrid: neuromorphic preprocessing makes data sparse, and FHE protects the parts that need to stay private. The crypto target is described as quantum-resistant by design and cryptographically agile by default. Medical-device language is intentionally avoided since there is no clinical validation, dataset, or legal review behind the prototype. The package contents are mostly documents: a one-pager, a pitch deck, a technical architecture write-up, a demo roadmap, a risk register, evidence notes, a post-quantum cryptography track, a whitepaper on encrypted-thoughts architecture for brain-computer interfaces, and a gateway pattern doc. There is also a small JavaScript prototype with no dependencies that you can run with npm scripts: npm run demo, npm run benchmark, npm run gateway:demo, and others. Everything is released into the public domain under CC0.