Understanding RTD Feed Authentication Architecture

The cryptographic provenance verification infrastructure that authenticates real-time structured data (RTD) feeds at the AI platform ingestion point before consumption by RAG-enabled AI systems. RFAA resolves the RTD accuracy vs. RTD attack surface contradiction (TRIZ-C-05) by separating the accuracy function from the attack surface: authentication eliminates the attack vector rather than monitoring for it after ingestion. Formally specified as BAT-4 sub-condition: Authentication_integrity(PrB,τ) ≥ 0.99. VERDICT B in Byrum's Law V8.0 – derivable from BAT-4's RTD_integrity condition as the structural implementation that makes the monitoring condition achievable.