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Ketcham Lab

PKI infrastructure, post-quantum cryptography tooling, and security engineering. Home of Quantum Nexum.

rayketcham-lab

Infrastructure-focused research lab building at the intersection of enterprise PKI, post-quantum cryptography, and security engineering.


What We Do

Certificate authority infrastructure, cryptographic tooling, and security engineering — focused on real-world deployment at scale. Background spans enterprise CA management and Federal PKI operations, including Federal Bridge cross-certification.

We're also exploring AI-driven project ideation with Project Forge, an autonomous think-tank engine that generates, scores, and scaffolds security-focused project ideas.


Quantum Nexum

quantumnexum.com

Post-quantum cryptography is no longer theoretical — NIST finalized ML-DSA, ML-KEM, and SLH-DSA in 2024. Most organizations aren't ready.

Quantum Nexum is a PQC PKI platform and educational resource built to close that gap. We document the standards, demonstrate real implementations, and build the infrastructure to prove they work at scale.


Public Projects

Security & PKI

Repo What It Does
ml-dsa-dilithium-certificate-chain-hub ML-DSA (Dilithium) certificate chain validation tooling — tailored for code signing Python
project-forge Autonomous IT project think-tank engine — generates, scores, synthesizes, and scaffolds project ideas into GitHub rep... Python
PKI-Client Modern PKI operations tool — certificate inspection, key management, TLS probing, and enrollment protocols Rust
PKI-Signing-Service Pure Rust code signing engine — Authenticode (PE/CAB/MSI), PKCS#7/CMS, RFC 3161 timestamping, PowerShell SIP, detache... Rust
parcl S/MIME Certificate Manager & Encryption Add-in for Microsoft Outlook — encryption, signing, LDAP certificate lookup, ... C#

Developer Tools

Repo What It Does
web-test-idea Testing the web Python
qn-claude-web Self-hosted web frontend for Claude Code CLI — access Claude Code from any browser, any device, anywhere on your network Python
issue-reporter Drop a feedback button on any web page. Reports become GitHub issues. No backend required. No dependencies. One file. JavaScript

Stack

C# · JavaScript · Python · Rust


Building in the open where we can. More projects maturing out of the lab.

Auto-updated 2026-04-01 03:44 UTC

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  1. issue-reporter issue-reporter Public

    Drop a feedback button on any web page. Reports become GitHub issues. No backend required. No dependencies. One file.

    JavaScript

  2. PKI-Signing-Service PKI-Signing-Service Public

    Pure Rust code signing engine — Authenticode (PE/CAB/MSI), PKCS#7/CMS, RFC 3161 timestamping, PowerShell SIP, detached CMS. PFX import, multi-algorithm (RSA/ECDSA/Ed25519/ML-DSA), REST API.

    Rust

  3. PKI-Client PKI-Client Public

    Modern PKI operations tool — certificate inspection, key management, TLS probing, and enrollment protocols

    Rust

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