Independent Verification
Independent verification reduces reliance on the system that produced the original result.
The verifier should receive enough evidence to evaluate the defined claim without simply trusting the producer’s success state.
Separation of roles
Section titled “Separation of roles”A useful verification architecture distinguishes:
- producer
- evidence
- verifier
- verification result
The producer may generate evidence, but should not be the only authority capable of interpreting it.
The goal is not to eliminate trust entirely.
The goal is to make the trusted boundary explicit and as narrow as the verification claim allows.