CoreBond Research Series

Trust is a decision. What supports it?

The CoreBond Research Series examines the assumptions underneath device identity, authentication, evidence, authority, retained state, recovery, uncertainty, and continuous evaluation. This page hosts local PDFs for reliable access while preserving Zenodo DOI links as the permanent scholarly archive.

Synthesis

CBRS Bounded Trust Framework v1.2

The Bounded Trust Framework is the synthesis layer derived from CBRS-001 through CBRS-012. It is not a product proposal, protocol, implementation standard, or certification scheme. It is an analytical framework for making, using, preserving, revising, and recovering trust decisions.

Paper archive

CBRS papers

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CBRS-000 β€” The Questions Before the Answers

A charter for the work that follows.

CBRS-002 β€” The Device Should Not Know Its Own Identity

A provocation about persistence, privacy, recovery, and trust in device identity.

CBRS-003 β€” Hidden Lifecycle Cost of Device Credentials

What must remain synchronized, replaceable, recoverable, and trustworthy after authentication succeeds.

CBRS-004 β€” Authentication: Credential, Proof, Result, and Time

What authentication proves now, what it does not prove forever, and when a system should ask again.

CBRS-005 β€” Zero Trust: Decision Dependencies, Freshness, and Failure

How stale, unavailable, delayed, inconsistent, or compromised dependencies affect access decisions.

CBRS-006 β€” Behavior Before Identity

Why behavioral evidence can support bounded response before attribution is complete.

CBRS-007 β€” Authority Has a Boundary

What an authoritative output actually entitles another system to conclude.

CBRS-008 β€” Evidence Is Not a Verdict

Why valid evidence can still be insufficient for the decision that follows.

CBRS-009 β€” Memory Is Not Authority

Why persistence alone does not grant retained state continuing decision weight.

CBRS-010 β€” Recovery

What may be preserved, what must be broken, and what must be established again.

CBRS-011 β€” Uncertainty

Why qualified appraisal semantics should not vanish before the decision boundary that needs them.

CBRS-012 β€” Continuous Evaluation

When a trust decision is finished, and when later inheritance needs to be bounded.

Purpose of the archive

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