Lineage, not logs: why autonomous agents need cryptographic provenance (opens in new tab)

When people talk about provenance in software systems, they often mean logs. Logs matter. They tell you what happened, when it happened, and sometimes why it happened. But logs are an after-the-fact observation layer. They are not identity structure. They do not, by themselves, give downstream systems a cryptographic way to reason about origin, delegation, and inherited authority. That distinction starts to matter a lot once autonomous agents begin creating other agents. SAL treats provenance...