. The system exhibits spectrally selective frequency shifts under red, green, and blue (RGB) illumination, establishing a dynamic optical entropy dimension that enables on-demand, reversible rekeying without hardware modification. We develop a robust key-generation pipeline combining within-chip normalization, random-projection q-ary quantization, and the Secure Hash Algorithm 256 (SHA-256) privacy amplification, followed by hash-based message authentication code (HMAC)-based key derivation. The resulting keys demonstrate near-ideal uniformity (~50%) and inter-device Hamming distance (~0.677 at q = 3, 39 ~ 0.761 at q = 4), while remaining resilient to advanced machine learning attacks (≤ 52% accuracy). We further demonstrate image encryption and authentication with noise-like ciphertexts and reliable tamper detection. This work introduces a promising class of material-intrinsic, optically addressable security primitives for trusted edge computing applications.
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