Tenant Isolation: Deriving Per-Tenant Keys, Enforcing ACLs, and Proving What Happened

How momo isolates tenants without a central secret server: HKDF-derived per-tenant keys, default-deny ACLs evaluated per request, and a SHA-256 hash-chained audit log that makes tampering detectable. Teaches: key derivation vs. key storage, why ACL evaluation order matters, and how hash chaining turns a log into evidence.

🏛 ARCHITECTURE•ENCRYPTION•August 25, 2026•6 min