BrightChain Papers

The BrightChain project is documented through a series of companion papers, each covering a specific aspect of the platform. The main platform paper provides the architectural overview; companion papers provide detailed specifications for individual subsystems and applications.

Platform

  • BrightChain — The main platform paper describing the unified architecture: TUPLE storage, ECIES cryptographic backbone, ECDH-to-Paillier key bridge, Brokered Anonymity, gossip protocol, governance, and the application ecosystem.

Cryptographic Foundations

  • ECDH-to-Paillier Bridge — Detailed algorithmic specification of the deterministic key bridge construction, including byte-level DRBG state, reproducible test vectors, and extended security analysis.
  • ECIES-Lib — The Elliptic Curve Integrated Encryption Scheme library that serves as the cryptographic foundation for the entire platform.
  • Enclave Bridge Protocol (EBP/1) — Replication-grade specification of the Apple Secure Enclave bridge protocol, the TypeScript client, and the SecureEnclaveKeyring consumer.
  • BrightLink Protocol — Hardware-anchored credential delivery for developer workflows: a Unix-socket protocol between CLI tools and a single resident desktop agent (BrightNexus on Apple Silicon), with key custody anchored to Apple s Secure Enclave.
  • BrightChain Crypto Sessions — Server-side key custody for end-to-end encrypted suites: sliding-TTL CryptoSessionStore and the useSessionEstablish / useSessionUnlock middlewares that let users authenticate once per session instead of once per request.

Applications

  • Digital Burnbag — Cryptographic vaults with provable destruction and non-access verification for whistleblower protection, journalist source protection, and secure data disposal.
  • BrightChart Practice Records Portability Standard — A FHIR R4-based open standard for full-fidelity EMR data portability across medical, dental, and veterinary practices.
  • BrightPass — A decentralized password manager with VCBL (Vault Constituent Block List) architecture on privacy-preserving block storage.
  • BrightDB — A MongoDB-compatible document database over content-addressable block storage.
  • BSH - BrightShell is the essential bridge between the theoretical papers of the Bright Spacetime Standard and the practical reality of daily engineering. It transforms BrightDate from an abstract specification into a living, breathing toolset.

Networking

  • BrightTor — An anonymized overlay network protocol that layers Tor-like onion routing on top of BrightChain’s block storage and gossip infrastructure.

Science/Core

The goal of these three standards is to eliminate the mathematical “debt” of legacy time and geographic systems by replacing them with a unified, high-performance framework based on the speed of light. By synchronizing space and time into a single decimal-SI scale, they enable distributed systems to calculate location, distance, and network latency with unprecedented speed and precision.

  • BrightDate - BrightDate is the temporal foundation that replaces fragmented calendars with a single, decimal count of days since the J2000 epoch, providing a perfectly smooth timeline for distributed systems.
  • Bright Space Standard - BrightSpace uses those decimal units to create a fixed, 3D coordinate grid anchored to the center of the Earth, eliminating the complex math and “polar errors” found in traditional latitude and longitude.
  • Bright Spacetime Standard - Bright Spacetime is the overarching mathematical framework that unifies the two, setting the speed of light to 1 so that distance and time are measured with the exact same ruler.

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