🧑🏼‍💻 Smart Trust Framework

• Just like HTTPS establishes trust between a client and server via certificates, SAS establishes trust between participants on the Stellar blockchain by creating attestations that verify claims (e.g., identity, credentials, or transactions).
• These attestations act like certificates, allowing developers and users to verify certain conditions, facts, or actions on-chain.
• Our smart contracts act as the protocol layer that smart contracts, dApps, and even cross-chain platforms rely on for verifiable information, ensuring secure interactions across decentralized systems.

🤝🏼 Verification & Authentication

• HTTPS relies on SSL/TLS certificates for authentication. In a similar vein, attestations in SAS are cryptographically verifiable and stored immutably on the blockchain. When an attestation is made, it's publicly verifiable, just like a secure connection is verifiable with an SSL certificate.
• Developers can reference schemas and resolvers to automate verification processes and ensure that interactions (like token transfers, identity validation, etc.) are trusted.

🔑 Encryption & Privacy

• While HTTPS encrypts data in transit to protect privacy, SAS uses the blockchain’s transparency and cryptographic principles to ensure data integrity and authenticity. Additionally, encrypted attestations can be stored, with only certain parties having the ability to decrypt them, much like HTTPS ensures private communication between a client and server.

📜 Certificates vs. Attestations

• With SSL, certificates issued by trusted authorities verify the identity of a website. Similarly, SAS allows trusted entities or decentralized parties to issue attestations, verifying key information (such as identity, KYC details, event participation, etc.) for blockchain users or smart contracts.