Austin, Texas
Scholar of classical East Asian medicine, independent researcher in cryptographic inventory, and writer — work that runs on a single thread: diagnostic discipline. Distinguishing what was observed from what was concluded, and stating the limits of the exam.
Dr. Simel E. Jenkins-Bey holds a Doctor of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (DAOM) from the AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine in Austin, Texas — a research doctorate whose core discipline is pattern recognition. His doctoral training centered on Wu Yun Liu Qi, a classical Chinese system of cyclical mathematics that tracks the relationship between consciousness, time, environment, and health, together with predictive and prescriptive modeling.
Over twenty-four years he has studied the traditional East Asian mathematical systems — Wu Yun Liu Qi, Da Liu Ren, Qi Men Dun Jia — from inside the discipline. That work now informs an independent cryptography research program exploring how these pattern frameworks bear on key derivation and post-quantum security.
His cryptography work began through a colleague in enterprise IT, and developed from there independently.
He lives and works in Austin, Texas, where his work centers on research and writing.
Dr. Jenkins-Bey maintains two independent research lines. The first is applied, concerning what cryptographic inventories can and cannot establish about their own completeness. The second is theoretical, concerning how patterns drawn from natural cycles might inform key derivation and post-quantum security. Nine papers are deposited with permanent DOIs.
Every mandate to migrate, secure, or attest to cryptography presumes an inventory of the cryptography in question. This line examines what such inventories are actually capable of establishing, and argues that an inventory must declare its own boundary to be interpretable at all.
Defines four terms: Step Zero, complete enumeration as a precondition rather than a phase; discovery theater, output that is authoritative in form and silent about its own coverage; the honest residual, the assets a methodology could not reach, named explicitly; and the distinction between automable collection and non-automable coverage — an instrument cannot establish the completeness of its own output.
Inventories record what a cryptographic asset is — algorithm, library, version, location. They do not record what it needs: the external services each operation requires in order to keep functioning. Defines six classes of operational dependency and distinguishes what can be enumerated from what would require intrusive testing to establish.
A note on affiliation: this line is developed in connection with the author's professional practice in independent cryptographic discovery. The papers name no organization or product and report no client findings. The independence requirement they argue for applies to that practice on the same terms it applies to any other.
This line proposes Natural Key Distribution (NKD) as an area of inquiry alongside Quantum Key Distribution, sourcing entropy from deterministic chaos in natural astronomical cycles rather than quantum-mechanical phenomena. Seven papers deposited between 2025 and 2026 set out the framework, its adversary models, and its open questions.
A note on status: these are self-deposited preprints, not journal publications, and they are offered as an early-stage research program open to review and revision rather than as a settled result. The papers describe theoretical frameworks and their open problems; they do not describe implementations.
ORCID 0009-0009-2064-8078
A documentary history of four generations of one family's work at Wormsloe, on the Isle of Hope near Savannah. Written under the name S. E. Jenkins. Representation and publishing enquiries: literary@simelbey.com.
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