Secure Verification

Verification evaluates protected evidence against an explicit integrity contract.

Verification flow

Evidence Package
      ↓
Required Files
      ↓
Canonical Representation
      ↓
Hash Verification
      ↓
Signature Verification
      ↓
Contract Validation
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PASS / FAIL

PASS

PASS should mean that every integrity requirement included in the defined verification contract succeeded.

It should not be interpreted more broadly than that contract.

FAIL

FAIL can result from conditions such as:

• missing evidence
• checksum mismatch
• malformed artifact
• invalid signature
• unsupported algorithm
• inconsistent manifest
• unexpected mutation
• incomplete verification state

Fail closed

For integrity-sensitive operations:

UNKNOWN ≠ PASS
PARTIAL ≠ PASS
ERROR   ≠ PASS

This distinction prevents technical uncertainty from being represented as successful verification.

Machine-readable results

A future stable Secure result contract should make outcomes consumable by:

• DigiEmu Core
• Arca
• CI/CD pipelines
• audit tooling
• governance systems
• independent verifiers

Conceptually:

{
  "status": "PASS",
  "integrity": true,
  "checks": [],
  "warnings": [],
  "errors": []
}

This object is illustrative and is not currently declared as a stable Secure schema.

Verification boundary

Verification answers:

Did the evidence satisfy the declared integrity contract?

It does not automatically answer:

Was the underlying decision correct?

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