Verify What You See

Digital content has no built-in proof of origin. sig-share brings sigstore-style open verification to photos, videos, and media — so provenance can be verified, trusted, and properly attributed.

The Content Authenticity Crisis

Every day, billions of images and videos are shared without any way to verify their origin or integrity.

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Misattribution

Content creators have no way to prove authorship. Work is stolen, reposted, and credited to others with zero accountability.

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Undetected Modification

Photos and videos are cropped, edited, and recontextualized without any trace. The original intent is lost.

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AI-Generated Fakes

Synthetic media is indistinguishable from real content. There is no standard way to label or detect AI-generated material.

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Misinformation at Scale

Without provenance, false narratives spread unchecked. Verification is manual, slow, and inaccessible to most people.

How Open Verification Works

A three-step process that creates a verifiable chain of custody from creation to consumption.

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Sign at Creation

Content is cryptographically signed the moment it is captured — by the camera, app, or editing tool. Identity is bound via OIDC (like sigstore's Fulcio), so creators never manage keys.

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Log to Transparency Record

Each signing event is recorded in an append-only transparency log (like sigstore's Rekor). This creates a tamper-evident, publicly auditable record of every checkpoint.

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Verify Anywhere

Anyone can verify the full provenance chain — who created it, what tools were used, and whether it has been modified. No special software required.

Architecture

Content flows through a verifiable pipeline from capture to consumption, with every step recorded.

CaptureCamera
Sign at capture
+ device identity
EditingSoftware
Sign each edit
+ editor identity
PublishingPlatform
Sign on publish
+ platform stamp
VerificationConsumer
Verify chain
+ show provenance
All signing events feed into
Transparency Log
Append-only record of all signing events
Verifier Client
Queries log to verify provenance chain

Help Build the Provenance Layer

sig-share is open source. We are building the infrastructure for verifiable digital content — and we need contributors, researchers, and advocates.