CITATION.cff

cff-version: 1.2.0
message: "If you use Aether Protocol-C in your work, please cite it as below."
title: "Aether Protocol-C: forward-secret, tamper-evident data commitments"
abstract: >-
  A pure-Python, dependency-free library for creating cryptographically signed,
  tamper-evident commitments over structured data. Each commitment is signed by
  a single-use secp256k1 ECDSA key (RFC 6979 deterministic-k) whose private half
  is destroyed immediately after signing, giving perfect forward secrecy and a
  documented temporal-safety margin against future quantum attacks. Records are
  written to an append-only JSONL audit log with SQLite indexing.
type: software
authors:
  - family-names: Barrante
    given-names: Brandon
    affiliation: Aether
license: Apache-2.0
repository-code: "https://github.com/AetherAI3/PROTOCOL-C"
url: "https://github.com/AetherAI3/PROTOCOL-C"
version: 0.1.0
date-released: 2026-06-03
keywords:
  - cryptography
  - commitment scheme
  - ecdsa
  - secp256k1
  - forward secrecy
  - audit trail
  - tamper-evident