# Security bound `kaal:entity:security-bound` **Status.** derived This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `security-bound`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself. ## Every claim under this term 2 claims across 1 works, 2026 to 2026. **2026** - [6192998-009](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6192998-009) [empirical/evidenced] -- Under the 2018 validation pool design, the cost of corrupting the system to reach fifty one percent control is at minimum twice the total reputation value of the system. > This is the fundamental security bound: corrupting the system costs at minimum 2× the total reputation value.34 Wulf A. Kaal, Evolution of Domain-Specific Reputation Systems From Binary Validation to Citation-Weighted Knowledge Attribution (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6192998 - [6192998-010](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6192998-010) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- The two times corruption cost bound of the 2018 framework is conditional, not general: subsequent analysis shows it holds only under specific conditions that may not obtain in practice. > However, subsequent analysis reveals this bound applies only under specific conditions that may not hold in practice. This is a limitation we address in Section IV.F. Wulf A. Kaal, Evolution of Domain-Specific Reputation Systems From Binary Validation to Citation-Weighted Knowledge Attribution (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6192998 ## Verify Every claim above resolves to a record carrying a verbatim source quote, the sha256 of the source PDF, and a preformatted citation. Nothing here asks to be taken on trust. curl -s https://wulfkaal.github.io/entities/security-bound.md | sha256sum **Canonical form.** This markdown file is the canonical hashed representation of this entity node. Its sha256 is the content hash.