[Theme] Cryptographic Runtime Enforcement Boundary (Control Plane Primitive)
fg-tida-themes-theme-cryptographic-runtime-enforcement-boundary-control-plane-primitive-37
| Type | FG-TIDA document |
|---|---|
| Group | Trust and Identity for Humans and Agentic AI |
| State | Submitted |
| Authors | Not entered |
| Last updated | 2026-10-23 15:10 UTC |
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Abstract
[Theme] Cryptographic Runtime Enforcement Boundary (Control Plane Primitive)
Theme Name
Cryptographic Runtime Enforcement Boundary (Control Plane Primitive)
Proposer(s)
Matias Salgado, Independent / Solutions Architect (matias.cloudarch@gmail.com)
Summary
This theme focuses on standardizing a fail-closed execution primitive (Integrity Gate) that physically decouples an AI agent's stochastic reasoning from backend execution authority. It ensures that no API transaction occurs without a deterministic evaluation of the agent's intent against immutable business rules, sealed by a cryptographic attestation token (e.g., PASETO v4). This is critical to prevent semantic drift and unauthorized financial or operational commitments by autonomous agents.
Scope / Open Questions
- What are the required architectural boundaries to physically separate reasoning environments (LLMs) from execution privileges?
- How do we standardize deterministic decision envelopes to guarantee fail-closed behavior before interacting with corporate APIs?
- How can we cryptographically bind the agent's contextual intent to a specific hashed version of a business policy to create tamper-evident forensic receipts?
- How do we operationalize mitigations for OWASP LLM08 (Excessive Agency) at the infrastructure level?
Related Work
- OWASP LLM Top 10 (v1.1) - LLM08: Excessive Agency (Separation of privileges requirement).
- EU AI Act (Article 11) & NIST AI RMF: Requirements for reconstructible audit trails and deterministic governance in high-risk AI systems.
- IETF RATS (Remote ATtestation procedureS): Foundational architecture for the cryptographic receipts.
Related Themes
- Extends Theme 6 (Intent-based Security Policies & Runtime Verification): Provides the physical enforcement primitive for the verdict states (
permit,block,remediate) discussed in Theme 6. - Complements Theme 8 (Remote Attestation for Agentic AI): Consumes the assertion provenance established in Theme 8 to validate tokens and generate forensic SHA-256 ledgers upon execution.
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