Zero-Residency Data Architecture (ZRDA)
The Technology
A new category of secure data infrastructure—built on motion, fragmentation, and zero persistence.
ZRDA eliminates the traditional storage layer entirely. Instead of writing data to disk, caching it, or leaving artifacts behind, ZRDA keeps data encrypted, fragmented, and in motion until the moment it is needed. Authorized clients reconstruct it only in volatile memory, after which it disappears.
ZRDA is not a database, not a cache, not a CDN, and not a VPN—it’s an entirely new architectural model for how sensitive information exists.
ZRDA Overview
What is ZRDA?
Why This Architecture Is Different
How ZRDA Works: The Core Flow
Zero-Residency Data Architecture is a motion-first, security-driven data framework defined by three principles:
1. Zero Residency
Data never lands on disk—no persistent copies, logs, or ciphertext.
Fragments live only in RAM with deterministic TTLs.
2. Zero Visibility
No single system, operator, or node can reconstruct meaningful data.
Fragmentation + multi-path routing ensures the architecture remains opaque.
3. Zero Blast Radius
A compromise yields only time-bound, useless fragments—no centralized troves, backups, or replicas to exploit.
ZRDA provides the world’s first storage-less lifecycle for sensitive data.
How ZRDA Works: The Core Flow
Why This Architecture Is Different
How ZRDA Works: The Core Flow
1.Encrypt
Data is encrypted before transmission using multi-layer keys to ensure the origin never exposes raw content.
2.Fragment
Encrypted payloads are broken into independent fragments that carry no reconstructible meaning on their own.
3.Mesh Routing
Fragments move across a distributed mesh using rotating paths, making it impossible for intermediaries to correlate or reassemble the payload.
4.In-Memory Reconstruction
Authorized endpoints reconstruct fragments entirely in RAM.
No storage layer, no residual copies, no recovery surface.
Why This Architecture Is Different
Why This Architecture Is Different
Why This Architecture Is Different
1.No Storage Layer
ZRDA removes disks, caches, and write operations.
All availability is achieved through controlled motion.
2.Operator-Opaque by Design
Admins, cloud providers, and intermediaries see only meaningless fragments.
3.Memory-Only Access
Data exists in usable form for milliseconds inside volatile RAM.
4.Distributed Trust Model
Multiple nodes share responsibility for movement, not protection.
Safety comes from the system’s fragmentation—not secrecy.
5.Harvest-Now-Decrypt-Later Resistant
No persistent ciphertext = no archive to attack later.
core innovations
- Zero Residency — No reconstructible data at rest, anywhere. Data never becomes a static asset.
- Fragment Motion — Data is encrypted, atomized, and kept in continuous motion. No accumulation, no recoverable artifacts.
- Distributed Mesh — WAN/LAN topology where fragments circulate, self-heal, rebalance, and evaporate. No central store.
- Client-Side Compute — All encryption, fragmentation, and reconstruction occur only in volatile client memory.
- HSM-Backed Tokenization — Hardware-rooted, single-use tokens authorize reconstruction without exposing keys.
- Automatic Evaporation — Fragments and keys self-expire through deterministic TTL logic
ZRDA ARCHITECTURE
ZRDA IS The next gen solution
The Problem
The Breakthrough
The Breakthrough
Data at rest is the single greatest liability in modern computing.
It creates: breach vulnerability, ransomware exposure, insider risk, compliance overhead, and centralized attack surfaces.
The Breakthrough
The Breakthrough
The Breakthrough
ZRDA eliminates reconstructible data at rest entirely.
Data exists only in encrypted motion across a dynamic, self-healing mesh—never stored, never sitting, never becoming an attack surface.
Transforming Businesses with Technology
LAN Mesh Prototype — Complete
RAM-only fragment-motion mesh with reconstruction + TTL evaporation.
WAN + LAN Unified Mesh — In Progress
Cloudflare-based discovery, NAT traversal, global mesh routing.
Client-Side ZRDA Architecture — Complete
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Provisional Patent Filed
Application #63/930,024 covering Zero-Residency Data Architecture and tokenized reconstruction.
ZRDA Roadmap
Market Impact
BHTN | ZRDA Briefing
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