The Field We Forgot to Name: A Practitioner's Note on Trust as Physics, Not Plumbing

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contents <p>A practitioner-register essay on why public-key infrastructure has, over two decades of operational work in national identity systems, stopped looking like plumbing and started looking like a field. The essay defends three structural properties that field-theoretic thinking gives the regulator — locality, gauge invariance, conservation — and warns against an eAIDAS that arrives by registry rather than by field equation. Submitted to <em>First Monday</em> on 25 May 2026 as a companion to <em>Unified Postquantum Trust Field Theory</em>.</p>
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spellingShingle The Field We Forgot to Name: A Practitioner's Note on Trust as Physics, Not Plumbing
Sokolov, Anton
PKI
trust field
post-quantum cryptography
public key infrastructure
eAIDAS
practitioner essay
field theory
eIDAS 2.0
national identity
<p>A practitioner-register essay on why public-key infrastructure has, over two decades of operational work in national identity systems, stopped looking like plumbing and started looking like a field. The essay defends three structural properties that field-theoretic thinking gives the regulator — locality, gauge invariance, conservation — and warns against an eAIDAS that arrives by registry rather than by field equation. Submitted to <em>First Monday</em> on 25 May 2026 as a companion to <em>Unified Postquantum Trust Field Theory</em>.</p>
title The Field We Forgot to Name: A Practitioner's Note on Trust as Physics, Not Plumbing
topic PKI
trust field
post-quantum cryptography
public key infrastructure
eAIDAS
practitioner essay
field theory
eIDAS 2.0
national identity
url https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20381446