The CREDA Systems Protocol defines how trust is generated, bound, verified, and evaluated across systems without reliance on centralized custody or institution-specific assumptions.
The protocol establishes a shared, machine-verifiable language for expressing trust state, authorization decisions, and verification outcomes so that they remain readable and provable over time.
Verification under the protocol does not require access to internal system state, policy engines, or runtime environments. Trust artifacts are evaluated cryptographically and semantically using protocol-defined rules.
The protocol is designed to operate across organizations, vendors, and regulatory regimes, enabling trust portability without shared databases or bilateral integrations.
Protocol evolution is designed to preserve backward verifiability and audit integrity, ensuring that previously generated trust artifacts remain valid and interpretable as systems and policies change.