Authorship seal: check a manuscript fingerprint and date

Public check of the Previum authorship seal: SHA-256 fingerprint, registration date, server signature and OpenTimestamps receipt.

Before uploading a manuscript to Previum you can register its SHA-256 fingerprint with a date. Any seal can be checked here: enter the fingerprint to see when it was registered.

How to check your file

How to compute the fingerprint of the original file: on Windows, "certutil -hashfile file.docx SHA256"; on macOS or Linux, "shasum -a 256 file.docx". If it matches the registered one, that file existed on that date.

What it proves and what it does not

What it proves and what it does not: it proves a file with that fingerprint existed on that date (certain date). It does not prove who wrote it, nor does it replace intellectual property registration. Previum does not keep the manuscript: only the fingerprint.

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