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2026 5 posts
Trusting AI Agents, Who Is Acting?
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Who Is Acting? AI agent security is usually approached as an identity problem: the question becomes “what is the agent’s identity, and what is it…
TDI2026 - PIC
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On April 20–21, 2026, the 4th International Workshop on Trends in Digital Identity (TDI 2026) takes place in Verona. The workshop program also includes the talk…
LFDT - From Identity-First to Authority Continuity
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On March 3, 2026, LF Decentralized Trust hosted the session “From Identity-First to Authority Continuity”, presented by Nicola Gallo.
LFDT - Trusted AI Agents by Design: From Trust Ecosystems to Authority Continuity
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On March 3, 2026, LF Decentralized Trust hosted the session “Trusted AI Agents by Design: From Trust Ecosystems to Authority Continuity”, presented by Nicola…
ZTAuth* and PIC: From Research to Ground Truth
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Over the past couple of years I have written several articles touching on ZTAuth* and PIC. Reading them today, some point in different directions, different…
2025 4 posts
A Trust Model for Ambient Mesh, microsegmentation, and async flows
18 min read
Ambient Mesh is redefining the Cloud Native service mesh for Zero Trust, whilst ZTAuth* completes it with Trust Chains built on Trust Elevation, Trust Levels…
Programmable Fiduciary Money and Order Instruments
4 min read
Single-merchant payments are easy; real commerce is not. The moment users ask an AI agent to buy multiple items from different merchants at the best available…
Decentralized Models for Programmable Fiduciary Money
5 min read
AI agents bring new security challenges, but also an opportunity to rethink traditional models.
By looking at payments from a decentralized perspective, we can…
Working on Permguard
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Kicking things off with something I’ve been building: `Permguard`, an open source project under the Apache 2.0 license.