Trust and security posture

What is live, what is not, and how to verify us without trusting us.

This page is public on purpose. It is updated as posture changes, and it states planned surfaces as planned.

Control posture

The public posture is deliberately specific.

Each row names the control and its current state. LIVE means live in code or record design today. PLANNED means not live.

  1. 01
    CRYPTOLIVE WHEN CONFIGURED
    Configurable signing

    ECDSA P-256 is implemented when key directories are configured. HMAC remains the dev and legacy default.

  2. 02
    INTEGRITYLIVE
    Append-only record storage

    Records get monotonic sequence numbers and database-level append-only enforcement. UPDATE and DELETE are blocked under row-level security. This is not a per-record blockchain.

  3. 03
    TIMESTAMPLIVE WHEN CONFIGURED
    Merkle + RFC 3161 timestamp

    Daily batches can be hashed into a Merkle root and timestamped through one configured RFC 3161 TSA endpoint. No built-in fallback TSA is live yet.

  4. 04
    VALIDATIONLIVE
    Fail-closed validation

    Records with unknown chains, missing fields, or malformed rationale are rejected before storage.

  5. 05
    PRIVACYLIVE
    AES-256-GCM encryption at rest

    Stored enforce payloads and evidence blobs are encrypted with AES-256-GCM before storage.

  6. 06
    ISOLATIONLIVE
    Tenant isolation

    Row-level security and FORCE RLS separate tenant records from runtime roles.

  7. 07
    PRIVACYPARTLY LIVE
    Payload minimization

    The public sample exposes only verification fields. Customer schemas require explicit allowlists before any real customer record is public.

  8. 08
    OWNERSHIPLIVE IN RECORD DESIGN
    Deployer-controlled record

    The record sits in the deployer's evidence layer. It is exportable, reconcilable, and contract-independent of vendor terms.

  9. 09
    OPERATIONSPLANNED
    Transparency surfaces

    Public status page, incident history, and key rotation log are planned. They must ship before any production pilot claim.

Data flow

Notary Cloud records. It does not decide.

  • The deploying system makes the decision.
  • The decision, rationale, and scoped inputs are sent to Notary Cloud.
  • The payload is canonicalized, minimized through an allowlist, signed, and stored append-only.
  • The public verifier checks the signature client-side against a public key served separately.
BOUNDARY

Notary Cloud does not decide, screen, approve, deny, or file SARs. It records the decision event after the upstream system has decided, then exposes a tamper-evident record when policy allows public verification.

Data handling

Subprocessors are named only when finalized.

HOSTING

Current hosting and storage

Deployment, hosting, and storage details should be named only after the subprocessor list is finalized. This page does not fabricate vendor names.

SUBPROCESSORS

Published list

Subprocessor list is published here and kept current. Status: publication pending.

DATA

Public record boundary

Public samples expose verification fields. Real customer schemas require explicit allowlists before any customer record becomes public.

Keys

Signing keys sit outside the producing runtime.

CURRENT STATE

The signing key is held outside the producing runtime. The ECDSA P-256 sample key is served at /.well-known/notary-keys/nc_pilot_ec_1.pem.

PLANNED

Customer BYOK and HSM/KMS-backed signing are planned, not live. A public key rotation log is planned.

Continuity

Verification should survive company and vendor change.

INCIDENTS

Incident history

Incident history is planned. It should be public before any production pilot claim.

DISAPPEARANCE

Record continuity

If the deployer retains the signed record and public key, verification does not require Notary Cloud to re-run the system or the original vendor.

Export

The record is exportable and independently verifiable.

  • Proof JSON with proof ID, key ID, timestamp, algorithm, input hash, decision, and signature.
  • Canonical string used for signature verification.
  • Public key URL served separately from the proof payload.
  • Verifier URL that can be opened by an examiner or reviewer when policy allows access.
Verify

Every claim here should be checkable against a live verifier.

The signed sample record and appendix expose the proof fields, canonical string, and public verification path.