ChronoSeal v0.5.1 — Architectural Cleanup & Privacy Hardening

[thakares]

ChronoSeal v0.5.1

Focused maintenance and architectural cleanup release improving:

• code structure
• session handling
• runtime maintainability
• and privacy-oriented internals

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Highlights

Duplicate Code Refactoring

Significant internal restructuring performed to eliminate duplicated logic across:

• session lifecycle handling
• cleanup routines
• heartbeat processing
• initialization flows

This improves:

• maintainability
• code clarity
• consistency
• long-term operational reliability

Refactoring commit:

• 217dc5f92b905addf77e7e57126059be0740cb1c

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Privacy-First Runtime Model

ChronoSeal continues to maintain its strict privacy-first design:

The framework intentionally does NOT store:

• IP addresses
• persistent fingerprints
• user profiles
• telemetry
• browser history
• long-term behavioral data

ChronoSeal verifies:

• session continuity
• cryptographic synchronization
• runtime coherence

without turning users into telemetry.

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Lightweight Runtime

Server Binary

• ~8.4 MB (x86_64 Linux release build)

WASM Runtime

• chronoseal_wasm_bg.wasm
• ~218 KB

Full WASM Package

• ~720 KB total

Includes:

• WebAssembly runtime
• JavaScript glue
• TypeScript definitions

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Unix-Native Design

ChronoSeal remains intentionally:

• lightweight
• dependency-minimal
• CLI-first
• systemd-native
• operationally transparent

No dependency on:

• React
• Angular
• Electron
• Node.js runtime
• frontend framework ecosystems

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Repository Hygiene

Generated artefacts remain excluded from version control:

Path	Reason
wasm/pkg/	Generated WASM build output
frontend/pkg/	Generated frontend artefacts
target/	Standard Rust build artefacts

Build outputs are reproducible directly from source.

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Runtime Improvements

• Improved internal cleanup logic
• Better session lifecycle consistency
• Reduced duplicated code paths
• Cleaner route handling
• Improved maintainability for future development

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Philosophy

ChronoSeal is designed to prove:

“A live browser session is coherently participating right now.”

without storing:

• identity
• telemetry
• long-term history
• or surveillance-oriented client data

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Project Status

Core architecture completed:

• Rust server runtime
• WASM attestation runtime
• cryptographic heartbeat chain
• privacy-first session model
• systemd integration
• Unix-native operational model

Active development continues on:

• CLI tooling
• runtime configuration
• deployment tooling
• operational hardening

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