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Machine Authorization

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title: "Machine Authorization"
slug: machine-authorization-index
category: machine-authorization
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short_description: "Pairing devices and nodes onto the network, issuing and rotating service-to-service capability tokens, and authenticating binary downloads."
status: active
bcsc_class: public-disclosure-safe
last_edited: 2026-08-06
editor: pointsav-engineering
paired_with: _index.es.md
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**Machine authorization** covers the credential and admission mechanisms that gate who and what can act on the platform — pairing a device onto the WireGuard mesh, issuing and rotating the Ed25519 capability tokens services use to authenticate to each other, enrolling a compute node into a fleet, and authenticating a signed binary download. These are genuinely separate mechanisms, not one system under different names; each guide states plainly where its own mechanism's real limits are, including where no revocation or un-pairing command exists today.

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**Start here:** [[pair-a-new-device|Pair a new device]] — registers a device with the pairing server and walks through administrator approval, the most common entry point into this category.

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## Pairing and tokens

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- [[pair-a-new-device|Pair a new device]] — register an os-console device and get it approved onto the WireGuard mesh
- [[issue-capability-token|Issue a capability token]] — mint an Ed25519-signed token and register it with a peer service
- [[rotate-keys|Rotate keys and capability tokens]] — replace a credential within the system's real 24-hour expiry limits
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## Fleet enrollment

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- [[enroll-ppn-node|Enroll a PPN node]] — start the per-node heartbeat agent and confirm it in the fleet controller
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## Software distribution

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- [[authenticate-binary-downloads|Authenticate binary downloads]] — confirm an order and follow the signed download path for a release
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Each guide carries its own prerequisites, verification steps, and rollback procedure; this
page doesn't repeat them. Day-to-day operation of a running deployment is in
[How You Run It](/category/how-to).

## See also

- [How You Run It](/category/how-to) — the remaining day-to-day operational guides
- [Security and Trust](/category/security) — the identity and permissions model these mechanisms participate in
- [Self-Hosting](/category/self-hosting) — deploying the appliances these credentials authenticate against
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