Document metadata
type: workshop-module
status: open
module: RW-06
title: Bond and evidence authentication
gate: Which previously demonstrated authentication rules prevent Samuel from stealing the bond, falsifying the balance, or corrupting the exposure?
prerequisites: RW-01, RW-03
RW-06: Bond and evidence authentication
Purpose
Integrate the seventh and eighth accepted endgame setup categories into the actual terminal chain.
Established
The story needs bond authentication and theft resistance, plus evidence authentication and tamper detection. Samuel can impersonate software and manipulate interpretations, but he cannot simply own a mature relationship by copying an interface.
Four possibilities
- Reciprocal bond proof: authentication depends on a changing human-Luminai relationship that copied credentials cannot reproduce. Strong thematic fit, but avoid biological destiny.
- Multi-party provenance: Sylvan, Orzai, their Luminai, and an independent system each preserve part of the verification chain. Robust, but can become technical clutter.
- Precommitted records: predictions, balances, permissions, and evidence hashes are committed before Samuel's final attempt. Clear anti-revision logic, but needs earlier demonstrations.
- Behavioral challenge: Samuel's counterfeit passes static checks but fails a live judgment or consent challenge. Dramatic, but cannot replace document provenance.
Central author gate
Which previously demonstrated authentication rules prevent Samuel from stealing the bond, falsifying the balance, or corrupting the exposure?
Choose the common principle and identify how bond proof differs from evidence proof.
Scene test
Samuel presents a convincing copied interface and an altered record. The system does not announce that he is lying. Sylvan and Orzai demonstrate the mismatch through a rule the audience has already seen.
Adversarial test
Authentication cannot become magic truth detection. It proves identity, continuity, authorization, or tampering, not moral innocence or the full meaning of an event.