System and methods for using cipher objects to protect data

A system for improved security of computer systems, comprising:

• a computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions stored thereon, the instructions comprising:
• a computer-based intelligent cipher transfer object comprising a digital mixture of a set of participants, said set of participants comprising:
• owner data;
• one or more outer cloaking patterns configured to be applied to the set of participants such that an interim cipher object is created;
• and
• a portable dynamic rule set, said portable dynamic rule set comprising an identity module, an intelligence module, and one or more inner cloaking patterns, each inner cloaking pattern including (i) a transformation to be applied to some participants of the set of participants and (ii) a description for reversing the transformation;
• wherein, in response to execution by one or more processors of the system, the instructions cause the intelligent cipher transfer object to internally perform the steps of:
• receiving, from an external agent, a request to access some or all of the set of participants;
• attempting to verify that the external agent is authorized to access some or all of the set of participants as requested;
• and
• upon verifying that the external agent is authorized, providing access to some or all of the set of participants for which the external agent has been verified for access, without providing access to unauthorized portions of the set of participants.