Virtual Private Knowledge

This is the working site of the VPK pathway lane — a system for handing someone a slice of a private knowledge base over a tailnet, at a fidelity they have earned, and being able to say afterwards exactly what crossed.

It is written here because a federated wiki is what it governs. Every page is forkable, and a fork is how you disagree with it.

Start here

Virtual Private Knowledge — the idea, in one page.

The Pathway — the primitive everything else is built from.

The Disclosure Ladder — D0 to D4: how much of a thing crosses a wire.

The Grant — a pathway becomes a served, scoped, expiring knowledge base.

The Runtime — the same grant read back as a trust task.

The Compression — how few words carry this to the next network.

Point And Shoot — the whole loop in one move, with the keeper still in it.

An Example Pathway — a real one, measured end to end.

What this is not

Not a proof of understanding. Not a cryptographic guarantee. Not a claim about anyone else’s network. Each page says its own limits; see What This Does Not Prove.