Marius Egerhei Torjusen

The Canonical Verifiable Trust Kernel (CVTK): An Architecture for Epistemic Gating in Cyber-Physical Systems

2026 · Open MIND

Abstract This preprint introduces the Canonical Verifiable Trust Kernel (CVTK), a deterministic fail-closed governance architecture for high-consequence Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). CVTK elevates epistemic integrity to a first-order control variable by structurally separating operational decision-making from …