Journal Vaults
Encrypted, graph-aware data stores that keep personal knowledge in reach yet out of surveillance markets. Vaults power retrieval-augmented AI and everyday journaling without surrendering custody.
Specification →JournalNet Protocol Stack
What We Do
Journal Foundation publishes the privacy primitives for the post-surveillance internet. We design and maintain the JournalNet stack so every human can steward sensitive data, mirror it to trusted allies, and invite AI or applications only through encrypted capability handshakes.
Three layers. One promise.
Vaults, cipherlots, and reference implementations form the JournalNet protocol stack. Together they deliver encrypted custody, metadata minimization, and selective accessibility for AI, friends, or cooperatives you trust.
Cipherlots
Capability brokers that regulate every packet. Cipherlots govern how encrypted data leaves the vault, issuing revocable permissions for people, apps, AIs, or enterprises you invite.
Specification →Reference Implementations
SDKs, CLI tooling, and deployment recipes that prove the stack works. We maintain libraries so builders can plug into JournalNet without rebuilding primitives from scratch.
Developer docs →Making data collaboration optional and sovereign
The JournalNet design ensures upstream data transformers—AI models, analytics, or businesses—only see what they should, when they should. Journalzens can consent to granular flows of sensitive PII, revoke access in seconds, and audit every transaction.
By separating custody (vaults) from access (cipherlots) and implementation (apps), we make encrypted autonomy the default while keeping data useful for personal insight, cooperative intelligence, and responsible commerce.
Our active initiatives
Publish open specifications
We steward RFC-style specs for every layer of JournalNet. The repository stays canonical, and the community shapes it through transparent proposals, reviews, and governance rituals.
Maintain reference code
Journal Foundation manages the canonical repository and the surrounding tooling. From DevOps scripts to SDK ergonomics, we ensure anyone can run a vault or cipherlot with minimal friction.
Educate & advocate
Privacy is a human right and a competitive advantage. We host workshops, publish explainers, and help people discover their own power to protect data while benefiting from AI.
Guide responsible adoption
We support builders, journalzens, and partners with governance models, funding transparency, and roadmaps that invite contribution without speculation or surveillance incentives.
Ready to engage?
Join the builders shaping JournalNet or onboard as a journalzen maintaining your own private graph.