ProvSeal
Clear definitions for the terms used to verify, explain and test-sign Content Credentials — provenance, integrity, trust status, certificates and reports.
The building blocks for reading, explaining and verifying Content Credentials.
Signed provenance and integrity information attached to media.
An open technical standard for attaching and verifying provenance information in digital media.
The structured record that can include declared actions, ingredients, hashes, signer information and signatures.
Evidence about where content came from, what was declared and whether the signed information still matches the observed file.
Cryptographic checks showing whether a file still matches the signed manifest.
A source asset or input declared inside a C2PA manifest.
Creator Assertions Working Group — identity assertions for people and organizations in Content Credentials.
Content Authenticity Initiative — community and open-source tools that promote Content Credentials adoption.
Use these labels consistently across file verification, page scan badges and reports.
The C2PA evidence is valid and the certificate chain is recognized by the trust context.
Signed C2PA evidence exists, but the certificate chain is not publicly recognized or trusted in the current context.
Read detail →C2PA evidence exists, but integrity or signature validation failed.
No C2PA evidence was detected. This does not mean the content is fake.
A valid signature and a publicly recognized trust chain are not the same thing.
A certificate used to sign C2PA manifests and bind declared provenance information to media.
A certificate generated for demos, development or internal validation. It is not a publicly trusted production certificate.
A certificate that chains to a recognized trust source and can support a Trusted status.
How ProvSeal turns signing material and manifests into reviewable output.
Creating C2PA-signed media with demo or development signing material to validate workflows before production rollout.
A readable explanation of detected C2PA data, declared actions, signer information, certificate details and validation status.
A structured report format for internal review, documentation, automation or integration workflows.
The standards, lists and programs that connect C2PA into real review and publishing pipelines.
The path from a signing certificate to a recognized authority or trust anchor.
A list of recognized trust sources used by verifiers to evaluate whether signed credentials should be treated as trusted.
A process used to evaluate whether products and implementations align with C2PA requirements.
The same vocabulary maps directly to the extension's verification, scan and integration surfaces.
ProvSeal helps inspect evidence. It should not be presented as fake detection, AI detection or a guarantee of truth.
Install the free extension to verify files, scan pages and read status badges with the same vocabulary.
