Foundations
Verification
Verification proves integrity: that an artifact is authentic, unchanged, and attributable to a keypair. Verification is not a quality claim — it is evidence of integrity and publication state.
What verification means in ETHORITY
“This published snapshot matches its signature under the published public key.” That’s it. No endorsements. No implied safety. Just cryptographic truth.
For auditors
Establish evidence that a specific trust artifact existed at a specific time and was not modified.
Scenario: a compliance report references the snapshot hash and signature for audit trails.
For engineers & agents
Use verification as a precondition to automation: accept only verified artifacts into pipelines.
Scenario: a CI job refuses to ingest an unsigned registry snapshot.
Do it yourself
You can verify ETHORITY’s snapshot on any machine by downloading the JSON, signature, and public key.