Q-Trust Plane
Cryptographic governance control plane
Cryptographic Governance for Critical Systems
Q-Trust Plane enforces deterministic authorization across CI/CD, infrastructure, and on-chain operations.
Problem
Critical operations are governed by inconsistent authorization layers: CI/CD controls deployment, IAM controls provisioning, Kubernetes controls runtime, and on-chain admin keys control assets.
Fragmentation turns auditability into a workflow. Logs are mutable, policies are ambiguous at time-of-action, and Web2/Web3 diverge into incompatible trust models under the same risk surface.
- Fragmented authorization produces drift and blind spots.
- Audit trails are disputable because evidence is not cryptographic.
- Web2 and Web3 governance diverge while sharing catastrophic failure modes.
Approach
Enforcement is driven by short-lived capability grants and evidence integrity, not long-lived permissions.
- 01Identity verified
- 02Policy evaluated
- 03Grant issued
- 04Execution bound
- 05Evidence captured
- 06Anchored on-chain
What It Governs
- CI/CD deployments
- Terraform / IaC
- Kubernetes operations
- Smart contracts
- Bridges / oracles
Core Properties
- Deterministic authorization
- Single-use grants
- Context-bound execution
- Cryptographic evidence
- External auditability
How It Works (Technical Snapshot)
Policies are expressed in QPL (Q-Policy Language) and evaluated deterministically. Allowed actions receive an ephemeral grant: a single-use capability token bound to execution context (job, commit, artifact digest, chain id, environment, agent identity).
Evidence is captured as an immutable chain and batched into Merkle trees. Merkle roots are anchored on-chain to provide tamper-evident, third-party verifiable auditability. Signing supports hybrid classical + post-quantum verification paths (PQC-ready).
Current Status
Q-Trust Plane is currently in beta, with a working end-to-end demo covering authorization, grant issuance, evidence capture, and anchoring.
Use Cases
- Prevent unauthorized contract upgrades
- Govern production Terraform applies
- Secure CI/CD pipelines
- Harden bridge operations
Contact / Access
Request access via email. Include the target environment (CI/CD, IaC, Kubernetes, on-chain), expected enforcement surface, and audit requirements.
Response window: up to 5 business days.
access@qtrustplane.io