How It Works
Learn the main ideas of the anchor protocol: no central server, a post-quantum PKI tree, and the controls that run a realm.
- IntroductionLearn how the anchor protocol runs a network with no central server, and how it compares with VPN gateways, reverse proxies and mesh VPNs.
- Post-Quantum PKI TreeMembership in VeilNet is a chain of post-quantum signatures. Learn what each key in the tree signs and how every peer checks a chain.
- Sovereign NetworksA sovereign network is your organisation's own tree of realms. Learn where its root comes from, what runs it and how sub-realms divide it.
- Control and Data PlanesVeilNet runs the control plane and the data plane on your machines, over the same links. Only renewal requests and telemetry reach your guardian.
- Machine LifecycleMembership is a credential with an end date. Learn how you commission, renew and remove a machine on a sovereign network, and what happens when a delegation expires.