Systems and Methods for Memory-Native Identity and Authentication

Abstract

Memory-native authentication in distributed environments is provided in which agents and devices form dynamic identities as successors along a trust slope using locally retained unpredictability and policy context, without persistent private keys. A Dynamic Agent Hash (DAH) and a Dynamic Device Hash (DDH) are computed from a prior state and either a hardware-anchor with volatile salt or a stability-tuned local state vector processed by a strong extractor, or a hybrid thereof. Messages employ two-stage validation: a header DAH for transport continuity and an embedded sender DAH inside the encrypted payload, where the symmetric key is derived from the recipient's current DAH/DDH. Agent mutations are entangled to host DDHs and recorded in an append-only lineage with periodic anchors, enabling delayed and sparse verification, predictive drift detection, entropy-anchor rotation, and quorum-based recovery after memory loss. An isolated fallback identifier supports legacy PKI interoperability.

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