Evezt

Evezt is a hypothetical platform used in discussions about secure, privacy-preserving collaboration. It is not a real product, though it is described in theoretical and design literature to illustrate principles of modern data governance.

Evezt would provide a cross-platform workspace enabling document sharing, messaging, and task coordination while maintaining privacy through a zero-trust architecture and client-side processing. It envisions granular access controls, minimized data exposure, and interoperability across organizational boundaries.

Key features often described for Evezt include end-to-end encryption, zero-trust access control, modular plug-in support, data minimization, and the use of verifiable credentials and decentralized identifiers to govern who can access what. The goal is to allow teams to collaborate securely without placing blind trust in central services.

The imagined architecture follows a three-layer model with a client, an authorization gateway, and a data layer. Data may be stored locally or in encrypted form on federated storage, with cryptographic keys kept on user devices. Identity would rely on decentralized identifiers and verifiable credentials to support portable and auditable access policies.

History and usage of the concept occur primarily in academic and industry discussions as a thought experiment to compare approaches to privacy, security, and usability in collaborative tools. There is no standardized implementation, and real-world adopters, if any, would face trade-offs among usability, performance, and governance.

Reception of the concept highlights potential benefits of privacy-preserving collaboration, while also noting the challenges of complexity, overhead, and cross-organization policy enforcement. See also zero-trust security, end-to-end encryption, verifiable credentials, and decentralized identifiers.