Initial official release of the Provenia Verification Reference Package.
This release establishes the versioned public reference for independent verification of Provenia Dossiers.
It includes:
- official verification methodology;
- verification specification;
- current Provenia Ed25519 production public key;
- public-key fingerprint and key history;
- Dossier package and verification rules;
- PAdES and final signed-PDF SHA-256 verification requirements;
- Ed25519 signature verification rules;
- institutional public-key trust validation;
- RFC 3161 timestamp verification requirements;
- Record-chain validation rules;
- guidance for optional local verification of original Record files.
Production signing key included:
key_id: provenia-prod-2026-01
SHA-256 fingerprint:
0b66685ad827eec46a3d227835c9af542409fa80a63dc88ed07ece4f99591604
This release represents an immutable verification reference state. Future changes to the verification specification or trust resources must be published as a new version rather than changing the historical reference used by previously issued Dossiers.
The independent Zenodo archival reference and version-specific DOI will be associated with this release separately.