Bonafide is an identity and encryption protocol built on user-sovereign vaults — passwordless authentication, atomic encryption, and privacy by architecture.
Bonafide inverts the data model. Institutions hold encrypted quanta. Users hold the keys. Access requires personal authorization, verified through a decentralized validator network.
No passwords, no tokens, nothing to steal. Identity is device-native and rooted in the secure element. Same person, any device — the user's root never leaves their control.
Every data unit is independently encrypted. Compromise of one reveals nothing about any other. There is no bulk decryption path.
Independent validators confirm an operation is legitimate without seeing its content. They see hashes, not endpoints, and no single validator holds the routing picture.
Institutional access is time-bounded and revocable by design. No persistent keys. Every relationship has an explicit, auditable boundary.
Institutions never hold real names, emails or phone numbers — only vault-issued proxies routed through the relay network. Each peer gets a unique one, so two institutions cannot correlate you.
Independent identities that share nothing cryptographically — no list, no count, no cross-reference. Plausible deniability is structural, not a feature toggle.
Bonafide gives institutions an auditable framework for handling sensitive data — with cryptographic enforcement of the policies you commit to.
Every session has a defined window, a defined scope and an audit trail. Revocation is immediate and complete.
Retention, security levels and revocation behaviour expressed in a format runtime systems enforce in real time — not buried in legal prose.
Closure, migration and acquisition follow a structured transfer flow. Users are notified, consent is explicit, handoffs are never silent.
Bonafide is sector-agnostic. The same protocol protects financial data, health records, identity credentials and personal communications.
Institutions store encrypted vault tokens, never cleartext account data. Bounded access with enforceable retention. When a customer relationship ends, the institution's access ends with it.
Patients hold cryptographic ownership of their medical records. Providers access data through time-bounded, purpose-scoped sessions. No centralized health data honeypots.
Privacy-preserving credential presentation for employment checks, age verification and cross-border travel. Selective disclosure without revealing full identity.
Personas are cryptographically unlinkable, and a duress persona authenticates into plausible but non-sensitive data under coercion. The real vault leaves no signal that it exists.
Bonafide is in active development. We're working with select partners in financial services, healthcare and identity infrastructure. For partnership enquiries, technology licensing or general questions, reach out directly.