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About this paper
Sumana Malkapuram, Sameera Gangavarapu, Kailashnath Reddy Kavalakuntla, Ananya Gangavarapu
A framework for lineage assurance in critical multi-agent systems is presented, integrating cryptographically verifiable identities for non-human identities (NHIs) with a tamper-evident action lineage system. This approach establishes auditable provenance for autonomous agents and their actions, addressing critical security and regulatory gaps in agent-to-agent communication by enabling robust identity attestation and historical validation.
Key insights
- A cohesive trust model is formed by tightly integrating strong cryptographic identity attestation for NHIs with a scalable, immutable, and append-only action lineage log.
- Leveraging Merkle trees and Signed Tree Heads enables efficient and auditable tamper-evident provenance for autonomous agent actions, similar to Certificate Transparency logs.
- Formalizing a call chain verification process, where each event is cryptographically bound to its actor's identity and its predecessors, allows for robust multi-hop provenance validation crucial for regulated environments.
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