Evidence Architecture: A Manual for Verifiable Systems, Decisions, and Public Trust - Softcover

Bray, Shannon W

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798171119003

Verlag: WENDE, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

Evidence Architecture: The Listening Edition

What if a system could do more than tell you what happened? What if it could show you-independently, verifiably, and without requiring blind trust?

Evidence Architecture: The Listening Edition is a lecture-style introduction to the emerging discipline of designing systems that preserve not only data, but the evidence needed to understand and verify decisions, actions, authority, provenance, and consequences.

Written specifically for listening rather than traditional textbook reading, this edition guides you step by step from the fundamental question-"Can the system show its work?"-through the architecture, mathematics, security principles, governance models, and real-world applications of evidence-centric systems.

You will learn how Evidence Architecture applies to artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, government accountability, elections, critical infrastructure, journalism, business systems, mobile devices, and other environments where simply keeping a log is no longer enough.

The course introduces concepts including Evidence Objects, Evidence Graphs, cryptographic commitments, digital signatures, chain of custody, policy-bound evidence, independent verification, reconstruction, standing, consequence custody, ETS and PLVX, and evidence-native system design.

A dedicated mathematics primer explains the underlying ideas-hashes, probability, confidence, Merkle trees, signatures, graphs, time, and authority-at an accessible level without assuming an advanced mathematics background.

Throughout the course, one distinction remains central:

Evidence can establish what a system can legitimately prove. It should never claim more.

A hash can demonstrate integrity without proving truth.
A signature can authenticate a key without proving authority.
A record can establish provenance without proving correctness.
A sequence can establish order without proving causation.
And a technically valid action may still lack the standing or authority required to produce a legitimate consequence.

This is not simply a book about better logging. It is a course about designing systems capable of preserving their own defensible history.

For architects, engineers, auditors, security professionals, AI practitioners, policymakers, investigators, and anyone interested in building systems where transparency can produce accountability-and verification does not depend upon trust alone.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: WENDE
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798171119003
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 650
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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