Developer builds SSL-style trust certificates for AI agents communicating autonomously

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Edison Flores of AliceLabs LLC has introduced Agent Trust Cards (ATC), a cryptographic trust system designed to let AI agents verify each other's identity when communicating autonomously. Flores draws a parallel to the 1995 introduction of SSL, arguing that AI agents in 2026 face the same lack of trust infrastructure that once held back web commerce. Each ATC is issued by a certificate authority, signed using Ed25519 cryptography, and can be revoked if an agent is compromised. The system also incorporates Sentinel, an eight-layer security audit pipeline that assigns a trust score to each registered agent. Flores positions ATC as a trust layer that sits on top of existing agent transport protocols like Google's A2A and Anthropic's MCP, rather than competing with them.

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