About Tyche Institute

The name

Tyche (Greek: Τύχη, pronounced "TY-kee") was the Greek goddess of fortune and chance — the classical embodiment of randomness, the conceptual foundation of cryptography. Modern cryptography rests on unpredictability: keys must be unpredictable, signatures must commit to unpredictable bytes, attestations must bind to unique moments. Tyche Institute draws on this classical heritage while focusing on the mathematical and cryptographic infrastructure required for trustworthy AI.

Mission

To research, document, and reference-implement the cryptographic trust infrastructure required for trustworthy AI under emerging European regulation (EU AI Act, eIDAS 2.0).

Approach

Open standards. Open source. Verifiable evidence. Independence by structure.

Tyche Institute does not sell trust services, does not certify compliance, and does not compete with commercial trust service providers. We publish specifications, maintain reference implementations, and contribute to standards bodies.

Current programs

Tyche Institute maintains and develops EATF (Agent Trust Framework, also referred to as Aletheia AI) — cryptographic AI attestation infrastructure. All code released under Apache 2.0. All specifications open for community review.

Formal working papers — on cryptographic attestation for AI agent governance, the EU AI Act, eIDAS primitives, and post-quantum readiness — are collected on the Research page, with permanent DOIs on Zenodo. Adjacent experimental and cultural work continues under the Lab, descended from the Random Research Lab tradition that preceded the Institute.

Organisation

Tyche Institute is a non-profit association registered under Estonian law (registrikood 80673227). The public registration, research identifiers, and external records are collected on the Verify page. Technical work is performed by volunteer contributors and advisors. See People for the publishing structure and Governance for funding, decisions, conflict-of-interest stance, and the boundaries the institute does not cross. The short institutional arc is recorded on History.

Standards posture

Current participation and prospective-observer interest in bodies such as CEN-CENELEC JTC 21, ETSI TC ESI, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42, and IETF SCITT is documented on the Standards page, and current memberships are listed on Memberships.