VIGIL Gate

Tracking since Jun 6, 2026.

Changelog

• Jun 16, 2026
  description

  VIGIL Gate is a browser security research project that explores how users inherit trust while moving through modern digital workflows.
  
  Traditional browser security mechanisms primarily evaluate destinations, domains and technical indicators. VIGIL Gate investigates an additional question: how workflow context influences user trust decisions during navigation.
  
  The project focuses on workflow-aware browser security, trust-transition verification and contextual user assurance across interactions involving email, collaboration platforms, identity providers and external web services.
  
  Research areas include:
  
  • Workflow-conditioned trust
  • Trust-transition verification
  • Contextual user assurance
  • Browser-mediated security interactions
  • Identity-context validation
  • Privacy-preserving security mechanisms
  
  VIGIL Gate introduces lightweight verification moments during selected navigation events to help users reassess trust when moving between different applications, identities and trust domains.
  
  Privacy is a core design principle.
  
  VIGIL Gate is designed around:
  • Local-first processing
  • Data minimization
  • No telemetry
  • No analytics
  • No browsing history uploads
  • No workflow activity uploads
  
  Additional information:
  
  Project website:
  https://sentyra.nl/onderzoek/vigil-gate/
  
  Privacy Policy:
  https://sentyra.nl/onderzoek/vigil-gate/privacy/

  VIGIL Gate 0.5.2
  
  Gate screen clarity
  Risk signals and navigation context are now shown in separate sections. Signals like "Link opened from another application" or "Login or administrative page" appear as context — they explain the situation without inflating the risk badge. The safety tip at the bottom is now shown only when it's relevant (high-risk or login flows).
  
  Smarter domain familiarity
  Domain visit history now decays over time using a 90-day half-life. A domain you visited a handful of times more than six months ago will correctly show as "rarely visited" or "first visit" rather than "known." This reduces false reassurance from stale history.
  
  Expanded lookalike detection
  VIGIL now checks 23 high-value domains (previously 11). Unicode confusable detection is extended to cover Greek lowercase characters (ε, ι, ν, υ) and common digit substitutions — typosquatting domains like g00gle.com, paypa1.com and 0utl00k.com are now flagged.
  
  Signal wording
  All signal labels and detail texts have been rewritten for plain-English clarity.
  
  Thank you for helping test and improve VIGIL Gate. 
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  VIGIL Gate is a browser security research project that explores how users inherit trust while moving through modern digital workflows.
  
  Traditional browser security mechanisms primarily evaluate destinations, domains and technical indicators. VIGIL Gate investigates an additional question: how workflow context influences user trust decisions during navigation.
  
  The project focuses on workflow-aware browser security, trust-transition verification and contextual user assurance across interactions involving email, collaboration platforms, identity providers and external web services.
  
  Research areas include:
  
  • Workflow-conditioned trust
  • Trust-transition verification
  • Contextual user assurance
  • Browser-mediated security interactions
  • Identity-context validation
  • Privacy-preserving security mechanisms
  
  VIGIL Gate introduces lightweight verification moments during selected navigation events to help users reassess trust when moving between different applications, identities and trust domains.
  
  Privacy is a core design principle.
  
  VIGIL Gate is designed around:
  • Local-first processing
  • Data minimization
  • No telemetry
  • No analytics
  • No browsing history uploads
  • No workflow activity uploads
  
  Additional information:
  
  Project website:
  https://github.com/malb8/VIGIL-research/
  
  Privacy Policy:
  https://sentyra.nl/onderzoek/vigil-gate/privacy/
  
  Disclaimer:
  https://github.com/malb8/VIGIL-research/blob/main/DISCLAIMER.md
  
  License:
  https://github.com/malb8/VIGIL-research/blob/main/LICENSE.md

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