PAE — Proof of Authentication Events

PAE — Proof of Authentication Events

PAE is a small, offline command-line tool for generating and verifying authentication claims using deterministic evidence.

It produces exactly one of three outcomes:

• Valid

• Invalid

• OutOfScope (if Valid or Invalid can not be decided, it will be OutOfScope, to remain honest.)

What it does

• Accepts a declared boundary and event-time interval

• Evaluates authentication claims:

  • Presence

  • Absence

  • NoFallback

• Uses deterministic evidence

• Produces and verifies an Authentication Event Record (AER)

• Works fully offline

Output semantics

• Valid — claim is provably true

• Invalid — claim is provably false

• OutOfScope — evidence is insufficient or malformed

OutOfScope is a correct outcome, not an error.

What it does NOT do

• No monitoring

• No agents

• No inference

• No learning

• No cloud services

• No telemetry