Practitioner essay examines the shift in public-key infrastructure towards field-theoretic principles, suggesting implications for regulation.
A practitioner-register essay on why public-key infrastructure has, over two decades of operational work in national identity systems, stopped looking like plumbing and started looking like a field. The essay defends three structural properties that field-theoretic thinking gives the regulator — locality, gauge invariance, conservation — and warns against an eAIDAS that arrives by registry rather than by field equation. Submitted to First Monday on 25 May 2026 as a companion to Unified Postquantum Trust Field Theory.
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