Digital DNA: The Multidimensional Digital Fingerprint as Fractal Identity, Provenance, and Recursive Lineage — A Secretary Suite Project: Persistent Identity Across Branching, Transformation, Inheritance, Replication, and Digital Becoming
Digital DNA: The Multidimensional Digital Fingerprint as Fractal Identity, Provenance, and Recursive Lineage — A Secretary Suite Project: Persistent Identity Across Branching, Transformation, Inheritance, Replication, and Digital Becoming John Swygert August 11, 2026 Abstract Digital identity systems traditionally answer a narrow question: what account, credential, device, key, or identifier is associated with this entity? Secretary Suite's Multidimensional Digital Fingerprint (MDDF) permits a broader architecture. An intelligent digital object, artifact, agent, user-associated construct, or governed digital entity may possess not merely an identifier but an attributable history of origin, relationship, transformation, authority, inherited state, branching, and consequence. This paper develops the MDDF as Digital DNA: a persistent identity and lineage architecture capable of preserving continuity while digital entities change. The DNA comparison is not biological equivalence. It de...