capstone: the keymaker - trust by authorship, not virtue

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something whose size is the point. The system that keeps solving
must also keep some things unsolved — not because it can't reach
them, but because their being unreachable is what makes them holy.
### Capstone — THE KEYMAKER
Will:
"The only one who can be trusted not to pick the lock isn't just one
who chooses not to... people can be forced. It's the one who made the
key. He by definition cannot pick it."
THE TRUST LADDER:
CHOICE coercible — trust until the worst day
SKILL earned — trust until a better picker comes
AUTHORSHIP structural — trust without a failure mode
The keymaker cannot pick the lock — not WON'T, CANNOT. Picking means
entering by understanding the mechanism from outside, and he never
stood outside it. Coercion has nothing to grip: you cannot force a
man to break into his own house.
Design consequence, binding: build every critical arrangement so each
party stands in the KEYMAKER position for their half. Trust must rest
on impossibility, never on virtue. The best security is not a promise
resisted but an impossibility attempted.