Launch of TimeCert a public timestamping service
Published April 17th, 2006 edit replace rm!
I am now officially launching TimeCert which is a trusted third party service for proving the existence of a file, object or document at a certain time.
Applications
Lets say your application managed confidential documents or emails. You could use TimeCert for maintaining a proof that a document or email existed at a certain time. As this timestamp is generated outside your own server, it is evidence that you did not manipulate say a contract after the timestamp.
You could also use it to timestamp a sourcefile to help out with Intellectual Property issues.
Technical details
It was written in about an hour the other morning using the new Camping micro web framework and the Mongrel.
There are full open API’s. You can read all the nitty gritty about how it works over on
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