qURL is LayerV’s product. OpenNHP is the network-hiding standard underneath it — published by the Cloud Security Alliance, progressing through the IETF, and co-authored by LayerV’s founding team. This page is the receipts.
The Cloud Security Alliance — the body that governs cloud security standards for 500+ enterprise members including AWS, Google, Microsoft, and Alibaba — has published the NHP specification as “Stealth Mode SDP for Zero Trust Network Infrastructure.”
“Transitioning core networking technologies to a default-deny stance — one that aligns with emerging Zero Trust concepts.”Read the CSA specification
The Internet Engineering Task Force is the body that defined TCP/IP, HTTP, TLS, and DNS — virtually every protocol the Internet runs on. NHP is currently in the IETF standards track as draft-opennhp-ztcpp-nhp.
The spec defines a single ritual: default deny, then cryptographic knock, then micro-authorized access. Every qURL LayerV mints is one execution of this ritual.
All ports closed. No banner, no response to any probe. The host is invisible to scanners and reconnaissance tools.
Authenticated identities send a single encrypted packet proving who they are before any connection is attempted.
A port opens only for that identity, only to that resource, only for that session. When the session ends, the host disappears again.
The spec is a document. LayerV is the running system — battle-tested, monitored, with SLAs and compliance mapping.
Global edge network, automated deployments, identity broker, audit engine. The platform that turns the standard into one API call.
We don't just implement the spec — we wrote it. Support and roadmap come from the people who define what the protocol does next.
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