The Geometry of Trust in Web PKI

ZENODODESCRIPTIONGAASUPKIGEOMETRYᵥ1. 0. txt Title: The Geometry of Trust in Web PKI Description: Web PKI is often treated as a cryptosystem. It is not. It is geometry: a space defined by trust anchors, delegation paths, and time-delayed repair. While TLS verifies a connection within this space, it cannot, by itself, certify the space is healthy. This release is an audit-first, structure-level analysis of Web PKI. It focuses on structural fragility (trust injection, delegation explosion, and revocation latency), and provides reproducible, auditor-friendly artefacts. Governance (NO OVERCLAIM): - This package is an audit and structural analysis. - It does NOT provide operational exploit instructions. - It does NOT claim to break RSA/ECC or compromise real systems. - Any public claim must remain consistent with the artefacts and labels. Dual-use boundary (absolute): - NO military use - NO surveillance use - NO coercion Authoritative rule: In case of any discrepancy, the ASCII (. txt) files are authoritative. Files included (authoritative order): Authoritative source (copy-safe ASCII): 1) GAASUPKIGEOMETRYMAINᵥ1. 0. txt Companion materials: 2) GAASUPKIGEOMETRYSUPPLEMENTᵥ1. 0. txt 3) APPENDIXHREPROAUDITCHECKLISTᵥ1. 0. txt 4) ZENODODESCRIPTIONGAASUPKIGEOMETRYᵥ1. 0. txt Figures (three figures combined in a single PDF): 5) FIGURESGAASUPKIGEOMETRYᵥ1. 0. pdf Non-authoritative renders (reading aids only): - GAASUPKIGEOMETRYMAINᵥ1. 0. pdf - GAASUPKIGEOMETRYSUPPLEMENTᵥ1. 0. pdf - FIGURESGAASUPKIGEOMETRYᵥ1. 0. pdf Figure map (scope of claims): - Figure 1: Trust injection (policy), delegation explosion, and the “math gap”. - Figure 2: Propagation vs revocation latency (time-asymmetry; soft-fail risk context). - Figure 3: Geometric trust lattice concept (locally contained failure; conceptual). Change control: - v1. 0 is a shipped baseline. - Any edits require a version bump (v1. 0. 1 or v1. 1) and a Diff Note. - Regenerate PDFs from the frozen ASCII sources. Keywords: Web PKI, TLS, Trust Graph, Delegation, Revocation, Structural Security, Auditability, Geometry of Trust Licence: (Choose the licence you intend for the record; the text above is licence-neutral. )