Tequel (TQL-11)

A high-performance, Register-Aware SIMD cryptographic engine and hash function, built in pure Rust for mission-critical data integrity.

Tequel +1.0.0: The "Iron-Clad" Performance Update. Featuring a complete core refactor, the TQL-11 engine now utilizes Register Pinning and 2x Loop Unrolling, delivering a massive +125% throughput increase in single-core environments and stabilizing at a rock-solid ~23 MiB/s for large-scale data.

By Gabriel "dotxav" Xavier (@G4brielXavier)

🔬 Internal Architecture: TQL-11 (v+1.0.0)

Tequel is powered by the TQL-11, a custom ARX (Addition-Rotation-XOR) primitive engineered for high-density bit diffusion and hardware-level efficiency.

• Register Pinning: Elimination of "Register Spilling" by mapping the 12 internal states directly to YMM registers, keeping all operations inside the CPU execution units and bypassing the Stack/RAM bottleneck.
• 2x Loop Unrolling: Processes 128 bytes per iteration (interleaving two 64-byte blocks), reducing branch overhead and maximizing Instruction-Level Parallelism (ILP).
• Dual-Wide SIMD: Processes parallel YMM blocks using asymmetric bit-twisting (0x517CC1B7) to ensure unique entropy paths.
• Zero-Allocation Hex Engine: Optimized hexadecimal serialization using static lookup tables, delivering O(1) latency for hash output.

🌪️ The Physics of Chaos: Digital Product Passport (DPP)

Tequel was engineered for Digital Product Passports (DPP). In industrial environments, speed is nothing without integrity.

With a 50.14% Strict Avalanche Criterion (SAC), Tequel ensures that flipping a single bit in a product's telemetry or history results in a completely different hash. By running at ~23 MiB/s (Single-Core), it allows real-time scanning and verification on edge devices without draining battery or creating production bottlenecks.

📊 Performance Benchmarks (v1.0.0)

Single-Core Evolution (Criterion)

Verified on target-cpu=native (AVX2).

Comparative Analysis

🛡️ Statistical Rigor

• Strict Avalanche Criterion (SAC): 50.14% (Ideal statistical randomness).
• Shannon Entropy: 7.999991 bits/byte. Output is statistically indistinguishable from white noise.
• Memory Footprint: Zero heap allocations during the hashing process.

⚙️ Core Features

• AVX2 Pinned State: Manual register allocation for maximum throughput.
• Hybrid Remainder Logic: Multi-stage cleanup (128-byte unroll -> 64-byte SIMD -> Byte-wise scalar).
• Rayon Ready: Native scaling for multi-threaded file integrity verification.
• Zero Dependencies: Pure Rust, no external overhead.

⚖️ SHA-384 x TQL-11 (Comparison)

Developer Note: This comparison is a snapshot of current progress. SHA-2 (SHA-384) has 20+ years of global optimization and micro-code refinement. TQL-11 was built from scratch in 30 days to serve as the backbone of a high-performance, deterministic ecosystem.

📊 Benchmark: 100MB Multi-Core Stress Test

The following data represents a heavy-load scenario using Rayon for parallelism and AVX2 SIMD intrinsics.

🛡️ Why TQL-11?

While SHA-384 is a sprint champion for small, serial tasks, TQL-11 was engineered for Industrial Scalability (DPP - Digital Product Passport). Its core strengths are:

1. Deterministic Latency: The scatter plot analysis shows near-zero timing outliers. In a production line (IoT/DPP), predictability is more valuable than raw peak speed.
2. Parallel-First Design: Optimized for saturating modern NVMe bandwidth. At 1.1 GiB/s, TQL-11 processes 500,000 items in just 12 seconds.
3. Cryptographic Density: With an entropy of 7.9999981 and an avalanche effect (Diff) of 50.14%, it delivers top-tier bit dispersion, ensuring maximum integrity for every "carimbo" in the ecosystem.

TQL-11 isn't just a hash; it's a mission-critical engine for high-volume data integrity.

📥 Installation

Add to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]

tequel-rs = "1.0.1"

Usage

High-Performance Hashing

use tequel::hash::TequelHash;

fn main() {
    let mut teq = TequelHash::new();
    let data = b"data_to_verify_integrity";
    
    // Generates a 384-bit secure hash string
    let hash = teq.tqlhash(data);
    println!("TQL-11 Integrity Hash: {}", hash);
}

Interoperability (in C)

#include "tequel.h"
#include <stdio.h>

int main() {

    uint8_t input[] = "data";
    uint8_t hash[48];

    tequel_hash_raw(input, sizeof(input), hash);

    printf("Tequel Hash: ");

    for(int i = 0; i < 48; i++) {
        printf("%02x", hash[i]);
    }

    printf("\n");

    return 0;

}

Why the name 'Tequel'?

"Tequel" is a reference from the Book of Daniel: "Mene, Mene, Tequel, Parsim".

TEQUEL means "Weighed". It represents a judgment where data is weighed and its integrity verified. In this library, it stands for the cryptographic weight and the balance between speed and chaos—data secured by Tequel is weighed and found impenetrable.

AGPLv3 License

Tequel is licensed under AGPLv3. For commercial inquiries, custom integrations, or closed-source licensing, please contact me at dotxavket@gmail.com.