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Copyright (c) 2026 J M Jarmacz | Evolution Strategist
Co-developed with Claude (Anthropic) - Claude Opus 4.6

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CREDITS AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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This project claims NO proprietary rights over the ideas, algorithms, or
techniques used. It is built on the shoulders of the people and organizations
listed below. Their work makes this possible.

No matter where you look -- this file, THIRD-PARTY-LICENSES, or anywhere
else -- you will find clear and accurate credit for everyone involved.

PROJECT AUTHORS
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  J M Jarmacz | Evolution Strategist
    Role: Creator, architect, language designer
    Contact: jason@trademomentumllc.com

  Claude (Anthropic)
    Role: Co-developer, code generation, architecture guidance
    Model: Claude Opus 4.6
    https://anthropic.com

LANGUAGE AND TOOLCHAIN
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  The Rust Programming Language
    Authors: The Rust Project Developers
    License: MIT OR Apache-2.0
    https://www.rust-lang.org

DIRECT DEPENDENCIES
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  blake3 v1.8 -- Jack O'Connor, Samuel Neves (CC0/Apache-2.0)
    BLAKE3 hash for deterministic token identity (i32 ID)

  aes-gcm v0.10 -- RustCrypto Developers (Apache-2.0/MIT)
    AES-256-GCM symmetric encryption (FIPS 197 + SP 800-38D)

  ml-kem v0.3 -- RustCrypto Developers (Apache-2.0/MIT)
    ML-KEM-1024 post-quantum key encapsulation (FIPS 203)

  ml-dsa v0.1 -- RustCrypto Developers (Apache-2.0/MIT)
    ML-DSA-65 post-quantum digital signatures (FIPS 204)

  serde v1.0 -- Erick Tryzelaar, David Tolnay (MIT/Apache-2.0)
    Serialization framework

  bincode v1.3 -- Ty Overby, Francesco Mazzoli, David Tolnay, Zoey Riordan (MIT)
    Binary serialization codec

  clap v4.5 -- The clap contributors (MIT/Apache-2.0)
    Command-line argument parsing

  memmap2 v0.9 -- Dan Burkert, Yevhenii Reizner (MIT/Apache-2.0)
    Memory-mapped file I/O

  rand v0.8 -- The Rand Project Developers (MIT/Apache-2.0)
    Random number generation

  getrandom v0.2/v0.4 -- The Rand Project Developers (MIT/Apache-2.0)
    OS-level entropy source

  thiserror v1.0 -- David Tolnay (MIT/Apache-2.0)
    Error type derivation

KEY TRANSITIVE DEPENDENCIES
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  RustCrypto ecosystem (aead, aes, cipher, ctr, ghash, polyval, sha3,
    keccak, module-lattice, signature, pkcs8, spki, der, const-oid,
    base64ct, zeroize, subtle, hybrid-array, crypto-common, block-buffer,
    digest, inout, opaque-debug)
    Authors: RustCrypto Developers, Isis Lovecruft, Henry de Valence
    License: Apache-2.0/MIT (subtle: BSD-3-Clause)
    https://github.com/RustCrypto

  David Tolnay ecosystem (syn, proc-macro2, quote, unicode-ident,
    serde_derive, serde_json, itoa, anyhow, semver, prettyplease)
    License: MIT/Apache-2.0
    https://github.com/dtolnay

  Rust standard ecosystem (libc, log, cfg-if, cc, bitflags, hashbrown,
    indexmap, autocfg, num-traits, memchr)
    Authors: The Rust Project Developers, Alex Crichton, Amanieu d'Antras,
             Andrew Gallant, Josh Stone
    License: MIT/Apache-2.0

  CLI ecosystem (anstream, anstyle, anstyle-parse, anstyle-query,
    colorchoice, clap_builder, clap_derive, clap_lex, strsim, heck)
    License: MIT/Apache-2.0

  Other (generic-array, typenum, arrayref, arrayvec, constant_time_eq,
    rand_chacha, rand_core, ppv-lite86, id-arena, version_check,
    foldhash, wasi, shlex, leb128fmt, is_terminal_polyfill)
    License: Various (MIT, Apache-2.0, BSD-2-Clause, CC0, Zlib, Unlicense)

STANDARDS REFERENCED
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  NIST FIPS 197 (AES) -- National Institute of Standards and Technology
  NIST SP 800-38D (GCM) -- National Institute of Standards and Technology
  NIST FIPS 203 (ML-KEM) -- National Institute of Standards and Technology
  NIST FIPS 204 (ML-DSA) -- National Institute of Standards and Technology
  BLAKE3 Specification -- Jack O'Connor, Jean-Philippe Aumasson,
                          Samuel Neves, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn
  ELF-64 Object File Format -- UNIX System Laboratories / SCO
  System V AMD64 ABI -- Michael Matz, Jan Hubicka, Andreas Jaeger,
                        Mark Mitchell
  Intel 64/IA-32 Software Developer Manuals -- Intel Corporation

SPECIAL ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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  The RustCrypto Project (https://github.com/RustCrypto)
    The entire PQC stack comes from RustCrypto. Pure Rust. No C FFI.

  David Tolnay (https://github.com/dtolnay)
    A huge portion of the Rust utility ecosystem used here is authored
    or maintained by David Tolnay. Extraordinary contributions.

  The Rust Community (https://www.rust-lang.org/community)
    Rust's ownership model, pattern matching, and algebraic data types
    are foundational to morphlex's design.

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For the complete dependency listing with exact versions, repository URLs,
and per-package license texts, see THIRD-PARTY-LICENSES in this repository.

Last updated: 2026-03-09
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