Trust and certificates

C2PA certificates and signing material

Certificates help bind C2PA manifests to media so reviewers can validate signatures and integrity. C2PA Signer separates test workflows from publicly trusted production chains.

Certificate chainTrust contextTest vs productionNo overclaiming

What it can show

Whether a signature validates, whether integrity checks pass and how the certificate chain is evaluated in the current trust context.

What it cannot show

It does not prove that the visual content is true, and it does not make uncredentialed media fake.

How to use it

Use certificate-chain details to support internal review, documentation and production-readiness planning.