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.

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.

Networking

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

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