Pillar five

Cryptography that does not need to be replaced in five years.

The platform's cryptographic posture is built for the standards your assessor will be asking about in 2028, configured now. Hybrid key exchange combines classical and post-quantum primitives in the same handshake so a compromise of either leaves the other intact.

Harvest now, decrypt later only works if the message was harvested in a single layer of cryptography.

In depth

What the cryptography layer actually does.

The platform's cryptographic choices follow the published direction of national standards bodies. They are not novel; they are deliberately conservative and verifiable from public references.

Hybrid key exchange

Classical elliptic-curve and post-quantum key encapsulation are agreed together in the same TLS handshake.

Signed policies

Each issued policy carries an Ed25519 signature. The agent verifies the signature before honouring the policy.

Signed agent updates

Update artefacts are signed and verified by the agent before installation. The signing key is configured at deployment time.

Encryption at rest

Per-deployment encryption keys, never shared across organisations. Customer-managed keys available where the deployment shape supports them.

Constant-time secret handling

Comparisons of secret material avoid timing channels that have leaked credentials in other systems.

Standards-aligned

Choices follow the published direction of NIST and adjacent national standards bodies. No proprietary primitives.

Token integrity at rest

Session and credential tokens are encrypted at rest with authenticated encryption, with rotation tied to administrative action.

Forward secrecy by default

Session keys are ephemeral. A future compromise of a long-term key does not reveal past sessions.

Bring your cryptography and risk-management leads. We will walk through the design and the rationale.