Artifact Trust, Admission and Continuing Revocation

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Verify exact artifact content and publisher authority, enforce deployment admission, then reassess software as vulnerabilities and trust information change.

Purpose: establish a technology-neutral trust decision architecture for deploying a specific artifact digest into a specific environment under current policy. Separate publisher authority, cryptographic verification, provenance and component evidence, deployment enforcement and continuing risk review. A valid signature is not sufficient proof that code is authorized or secure. Safety and lifecycle: the exact inspected digest must equal deployed bytes. Policies bind signer authorization, provenance, software inventory and current vulnerability assessment to a time-bounded decision. Invalid signatures, untrusted material or missing approval lead to denial. A newly compromised signer, expired exception or material disclosed vulnerability triggers reevaluation, and unacceptable exposure results in revoked admission, containment and independently qualified replacement. Operating caveats: response to vulnerability disclosure is risk- and context-based, not an automatic claim that every published issue requires immediate shutdown. Continuous tracking must link deployments to actual content digests and accountable owners. Limitations: architecture reference only, not a working signature verifier, deployable policy engine, proof that software is vulnerability-free or a guaranteed revocation service. Trust roots, signing algorithms, actual policies, evidence, thresholds and acceptance tests must be supplied by adopters.

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Role: Supply chain admission authority, Independent trust assessor, Deployment enforcement operator, Software incident response owner
Business Actor: Software-consuming business party
Application: Logical software artifact trust plane
Application Component: Publisher authority validator, Cryptographic artifact evidence verifier, Software admission policy evaluator, Deployment admission enforcement boundary, Continuous deployed risk evaluator, Admission revocation and containment controller
Application Service: Artifact trust admission service
Data Store: Immutable software artifact repository, Attributed admission and revocation evidence, Deployed software digest inventory
Artifact: Immutable candidate software artifact, Artifact signature and signer credential, Build provenance attestation
Business Object: Software dependency inventory, Vulnerability status assessment, Scope-limited software trust decision, Authorized expiring risk exception, New software supply-chain exposure
Work Package: Approved software replacement package
Policy: Software artifact admission criteria
Constraint: Subject content digest equality, Explicit publisher authorization, Evidence and exception validity interval, Current revocation requirement
Requirement: Effective trust and admission assurance
Control: Prevent unauthorized software execution
Risk: Compromised or vulnerable software in use
Behaviour: Request scoped artifact admission, Inspect attached software trust evidence, Verify subject digest and publisher authority, Apply policy and vulnerability relevance, Permit exact eligible artifact deployment, Deny invalid or untrusted artifact, Reassess already deployed software, Withdraw affected deployment eligibility, Qualify corrective software candidate, Verify deployment remediation closure
Business Event: Signing credential compromise discovered, New dependency vulnerability reported, Artifact exception or evidence expired, Artifact digest mismatch detected
State: Approved release scope, Prohibited software use, Previously allowed artifact no longer eligible, Remediation independently accepted
Measure: Deployed artifact trust coverage, Exposure containment and correction time
Outcome: Continuously justified software admission
Capability: Maintain software artifact trust lifecycle