Technology
Inside the VE&TA enforcement architecture. Four services, dual-signed receipts, sub-8ms verification, and the cryptographic primitives that make consent mechanical.
VE&TA Architecture
Verifiable Enforcement & Token Architecture. Four isolated services, each with a single responsibility. No service trusts another. Every boundary cryptographically enforced.
Issuer
Token OriginIssues Consent DNA Tokens and dual-signs every receipt with post-quantum cryptography. The origin of every cryptographic proof.
Verifier
GateValidates CDT against live policy state and current revocation epoch. Fail-closed: invalid or missing token = DENY. No exceptions.
Policy Registry
LedgerStores canonical policies, consent deltas, and revocation epochs in an append-only ledger. No overwrites. No deletions. Ever.
Oracle
TimingHardware-timed attestation with tamper-evident timestamps. Clock skew resistant. Cryptographically bound to receipt chain.
Consent DNA Token
A proprietary consent verification mechanism that binds policy state to a revocation epoch. Change the policy or flip the epoch — every token invalidated instantly.
Policy state cryptographically bound to revocation epoch. Same policy, same token. Always.
Instant invalidation of all outstanding tokens. Single epoch flip. No token-by-token revocation needed.
Constant-time verification. Token proves policy existed at that epoch. Irreversible. Non-repudiable.
Enforcement Flow
Five stages from request to immutable proof. Total budget: 12 milliseconds.
Request hits gate
Every AI action intercepted before execution. No bypass path exists.
CDT computed + verified
≤8ms SLAConsent DNA Token generated from canonical policy hash and current epoch. Verified against Policy Registry.
Decision: ALLOW or DENY
Binary enforcement. Valid CDT = ALLOW. Invalid, expired, or missing CDT = DENY. Fail-closed. No silent pass-throughs.
Dual-sign receipt
Classical + post-quantum signatures. Both required. Non-repudiable.
Merkle commit + chain-link
≤12ms SLAReceipt hashed into Merkle tree. Chain-linked to previous receipt. Verifiable offline by anyone.
Performance Benchmarks
Measured, not estimated. Production benchmarks from the Juggernaut Kernel v1.2.
SLA Compliance
| Stage | Target | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Initiation SLA | ≤8ms | PASS |
| Complete SLA | ≤12ms | PASS |
Cryptographic Posture
Three layers of cryptographic enforcement. Classical for today, post-quantum for tomorrow, zero-knowledge for privacy.
Classical Signatures
NIST-approved algorithms. Every receipt dual-signed. Industry-standard verification. Broad hardware support.
Post-Quantum Signatures
NIST-approved post-quantum algorithms. Harvest-now-decrypt-later defense. Quantum-resistant from day one.
Zero-Knowledge Proofs
Optional ZK proof binding consent token, Merkle root, epoch, and timing data. Prove compliance without revealing policy internals.
Kernel Modules
12 modules. Single-responsibility. Zero circular dependencies. 159 tests passing.
Red Team Results
Adversarial testing across 20 attack categories. Every vector blocked. Every tamper detected.
Negative Proofs — Tamper Detection
Five integrity tests that must correctly FAIL. If tampering goes undetected, the system is broken.
Mechanical enforcement. Not policy theater.
The VE&TA architecture is patent pending, production-tested, and available for integration. Sub-8ms consent enforcement for any AI pipeline.