Regulated search · Private beta · Open-source release planned
EGOTHOR v4
A new generation of the Egothor search engine for environments where information is governed by clearance, classification, integrity, compartments and conflict boundaries — and where authorization must be part of search itself.
Search when information has rules
Many search systems treat authorization as a perimeter concern: authenticate a user, grant access to an index and then search everything inside it. EGOTHOR v4 is being built for a different class of environment — one in which a user may be permitted to search one information domain, forbidden to see another, and prevented from combining material whose boundaries must remain intact.
The project therefore treats authorization as part of retrieval and disclosure, not simply as a gate in front of the search service. Identity is necessary, but it is not the complete decision model. Clearance, classification, integrity requirements, compartments and conflict boundaries can all influence whether a result should be revealed.
The regulated-search model
Clearance-aware
Access decisions can reflect what a user is cleared to receive rather than relying on application membership alone.
Classification-aware
Information classification is treated as a first-class constraint on what may be returned from search.
Integrity-aware
The information model accounts for integrity requirements alongside confidentiality-oriented controls.
Compartment-aware
Search can preserve boundaries between information compartments instead of flattening them into one unrestricted result space.
Conflict-aware
Conflict boundaries can prevent combinations that are individually accessible but must not be mixed.
Operational controls
The working beta already includes sign-in, multi-factor authentication and an administration console alongside indexing and search.
Early beta interface
The first working beta is already exercising the core user and administrative paths. The images below are from the project's initial public preview; they are presented as product-development snapshots rather than a commitment to final interface design.
A return to the original domain
EGOTHOR v4 resumes the project family's original search-engine direction more than twenty-five years after the first Egothor work. The objective is not nostalgia or compatibility with the historical implementation. It is a contemporary search system shaped around a problem that becomes increasingly important in enterprise and regulated environments: retrieval must understand not only what matches, but what may be disclosed to whom and under which boundaries.