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Security & trust

Trust Center

The Trust Center is the place in the console where the platform's cryptographic material is shown, not asserted. Every value is read live from the running system each time you open it, fingerprints are recomputed on the server, and it exposes public material only - key identifiers, fingerprints, thresholds and expiry. No private key is ever shown, here or over the API.

You will find it in the console under Trust. It requires the evidence-read permission.

Update trust

The first panel lays out the update-signing roles and their custody:

  • root and targets are marked offline · air-gapped - their keys are produced in a ceremony and never touch the backend.
  • snapshot, timestamp and the delegated publisher are marked online.

For each role you see its key identifiers, key type, signature threshold, current version and expiry. This is the property that contains a supply-chain compromise, made directly inspectable: you can see for yourself which keys are offline.

Device identity

The second panel shows the certificate authority that signs device identities, as a chain of certificates. Each node shows its subject, issuer, serial number, SHA-256 fingerprint, validity window, key algorithm, and whether it is a certificate authority - with the computed expiry status so an approaching renewal is visible, not a surprise.

Audit & evidence

The third panel surfaces the append-only, hash-chained audit log as a first-class, verifiable object: live chain-integrity status (recomputed on every load - a chain that can complain is one you can believe), the chain head, the event count, a window of recent actions, and a one-click download of the signed audit export for third-party verification against the published key.

Artifact provenance

The fourth panel answers "what exactly are we shipping, and how is it vouched for?" Every artifact is signed into a TUF target; the panel shows that, whether the artifact carries a software bill of materials, and its open-vulnerability posture by severity. An artifact that is signed, carries an SBOM, and has no open critical findings is shown as signed and vetted - the admission posture made visible.

More to come

The Trust Center is built to grow. The remaining planned panel is per-device attestation and secure-boot state, where the hardware supports it - it arrives with hardware-backed key support, not before.