We present ENI6MA and Rosario Cypher as a proof-based identity and authorization architecture for emerging cybersecurity threats involving shadow AI, deepfakes, prompt injection, autonomous agents, credential theft, privacy exposure, and post-quantum risk. The paper responds to major 2026 cybersecurity forecasts by identifying a common root cause across many attack surfaces: conventional systems depend on reusable, stealable artifacts such as credentials, tokens, private keys, sessions, API keys, and stored personal data. ENI6MA replaces possession-based authentication with per-event proof of knowledge, policy-bound authorization, privacy-clean auditability, and contract enforcement behind cryptographically secure proof. Special attention is given to autonomous-agent security. The paper explains how ENI6MA constrains agents through per-action proof, verifier allowlists, policy identifiers, scoped pass credentials, and immutable validation records, reducing the risk of hijacked agents, excessive privilege, non-human identity sprawl, and zero-click prompt-injection exfiltration. The white paper also describes ENI6MA’s flexible deployment and capability model, including passwordless single sign-on, PII validation without disclosure, agent-to-agent authentication, proof-gated signing and custody, post-quantum sealing, sovereign/offline operation, and public verifier anchoring. This document is intended for cybersecurity leaders, AI governance teams, identity architects, privacy and compliance stakeholders, investors, technology partners, and researchers evaluating post-credential identity systems for human and autonomous-agent workflows.
ROSARIO et al. (2026) studied this question.