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Co-authored-by: Thomas Fossati <[email protected]>
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henkbirkholz and thomas-fossati authored Sep 10, 2024
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Expand Up @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ A second use case is the notarization of a signed document by registering it at
This is common for accountability and auditability of issued documents.
Once a document is registered at a Transparency Service's append-only log, its log entry cannot be changed.
In certain cases, the registration policy of a Transparency Service may add a trustworthy timestamp to the signed document.
This is done to enhance confidence in the authenticity of the document at the time of registration, enshrining that a signature was successfully validated.
This is done to lock the signature to a specific point in time.
To achieve this, the Transparency Service acquires a TST from a TSA when its registration policy is met, bundles it alongside the signed document, and then registers it.
A relying party that wants to ascertain the authenticity of a document at a certain time does not have to trust the Transparency Service's clock, which may have been maliciously altered or can simply be inaccurate.

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