Architecture

How MAX identity is built and used.

MAX starts from a simple idea: build a local identity, represent it as a public verifiable root and use that root to sign, access, communicate, protect data and authorize devices.

In the MAX model, this public root is the MAX ID.

How the MAX ID is built

MAX ID is not an external account. It is the public root of a local identity process.

From local structure to public identity

At the base of MAX there is independent research on prime numbers, deterministic sequences and ordered structures.

This part is not new cryptography. It provides an ordered and reproducible starting point: a local structure from which an identity can be built.

From this structure, MAX can generate internal material. This material may include many deterministic elements, including large prime numbers.

The point is not that prime numbers alone “make the system secure”. The point is that they contribute to a personal, ordered and non-manually chosen structure: the skeleton from which local identity is built.

The internal elements are then transformed through hashes. Hashes produce technical fingerprints of data without directly exposing the original data.

When these hashes are organized into a tree structure, the final Merkle root is obtained. In the MAX model, that final Merkle root is the MAX ID.

Important distinction

MAX ID and Merkle root are not separate objects in this context. The MAX ID is the final Merkle root used as the public verifiable identity root.

What the MAX ID is for

The MAX ID is the common reference point of the ecosystem.

Identity root

What it is

The MAX ID is the public verifiable root of the local identity. It is not a username, not a password, not an account created by a server and not an app module.

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Proof layer

What it enables

By itself, the MAX ID identifies. When it is connected to public keys, signatures, challenges, signed payloads and verification flows, it allows identity to produce proof.

Known cryptographic components

MAX uses known and studied cryptographic components, including post-quantum components such as SPHINCS+ and FrodoKEM. MAX Prime Theory does not replace these components. The operational cryptographic layer remains based on known, studied and verifiable algorithms.

The modules of the ecosystem

The MAX modules are not disconnected features. They are different ways of using the same local identity, publicly represented by the MAX ID.

Log

Access

MAX Login

Access to compatible services through challenge, signature and identity verification. It does not start from the classic email + password model.

Sig

Proof

MAX Signature

Signing of contents, payloads, documents or approvals. A signature connects a content to a verifiable identity.

Protection

MAX Vault

Local protection of personal data. It is one concrete use of local identity inside a privacy-first model.

Chat

Communication

MAX Chat

Encrypted communication linked to identity. It can also become a channel for contacts, encrypted flows and commands toward authorized devices.

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Container

MX²

A portable and verifiable cryptographic container used to package protected material in a structured and controllable format.

App

People

MAX App

The personal iPhone environment that brings together local identity, Login, Signature, Vault and Chat.

IoT

Machines

MAX IoT

The extension of MAX identity to machines. A device can have its own MAX ID, role, signed rules and observable states.

Fleet rules

Fleet Manifest

A signed document used to configure a device fleet: nodes, roles, peers, gateways, operators and operational rules.

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Infrastructure

Support infrastructure

Server-side coordination for messages, login support, manifest distribution and reports. It does not create the personal identity.

Technical note

The public identity root does not expose the internal material from which it is built.

MAX ID, hashes and internal material

The MAX ID, meaning the final Merkle root, does not directly reveal the internal material from which it derives.

The internal material may include hundreds of large prime numbers organized inside a local process. The MAX ID does not expose these elements: it represents them through hashes.

Practical non-invertibility depends on the properties of cryptographic hashes and on the quality of the starting material.

This is why MAX does not present prime numbers as “new cryptography”, but as part of the deterministic structure that leads to identity construction.

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Architecture summary

MAX Architecture shows how MAX identity is built locally and how the same identity is used by people, services and machines.

mathematical structure internal material hashes MAX ID / final Merkle root cryptographic proofs Login Signature Vault Chat App IoT Fleet Manifest support infrastructure