How it works

The Timestamp Authority creates a timestamp with the fingerprint, the authority's digital signature, and the current time.

The timestamp is returned to you as a certificate, for your safe keeping, verifying the file's existence at the moment of timestamping. This certificate is proof that the file has not changed since being protected

Important Considerations:

• You should include your name in the file that you timestamp, otherwise all that will be proven is that the file existed at a point-in-time.
• You must retain a copy of the file version you timestamped. A modified version will no longer have the same digital fingerprint so it will not be protected.
• You must retain a copy of the timestamp certificate to protect the authenticity of your records.

What you'll need to do

Protecting your records has never been this cheap or this easy:

First, you'll need to have a digital file of your records. If your records were not created digitally, this can be a scan, recording, or any other digital file that represents the work you need to protect.

Next, you'll need to make an account with DigiStamp. There is a minimum charge of $10 to use the service, but timestamps cost only $.40. Ten dollars allows you to protect 25 records.

Now, you're ready to make your first e-Timestamp with our web applications, or other programs like Adobe Acrobat or Microsoft Office.

Video demonstrations of how to use our web applications and the IP Protector are available.

An e-TimeStamp is a SecureTime certificate stating that a specific data file existed at a point-in-time. Every e-TimeStamp is created by an auditably locked-down FIPS-certified HSM. Independently verifiable evidence for $.40.

Legal Protection

Digital timestamping represents an easy-to-implement security control that enables companies to be litigation-ready and to protect their valuable intellectual property portfolios. Further, it is very prudent for an organization to have an external, or third-party, timestamp that proves that people within the organization and outside the corporate perimeter neither altered nor backdated any electronic data.

• Your integrity is being questioned on data you collected five years ago? With a timestamp, the state of your raw data at the time of collection can be strongly asserted to by a trusted third party. Your data is not revealed to us.
• Timestamps also make consultations safer. Suppose someone comes to you with a presentation, but you discover that you're already developing what they offer. How do you prove, later on, that you didn't steal their ideas? Easy--if your earlier work is all timestamped.
• Or suppose you want to consult with someone else on your new ideas or products, maybe with the idea of a partnership. Timestamps make Non-Disclosure Agreements ironclad. An eTimeStamp proves that your work predates the Non-Disclosure Agreement.

The designs and data you produce each day are a critical representation of your work. Digital data is easy to transmit and manipulate but its integrity and authenticity are difficult to prove. e-TimeStamp provides strong legal evidence that your data existed in its unaltered state, then and now.

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Why you can trust it

DigiStamp provides strong legal evidence for authentication

Simply put, you need proof of what you've done and when you did it. Our service provides strong evidence for both.
In fact, we provide uniquely strong evidence, in part because we have implemented internationally standardized methods.

No one can use our service to produce a false timestamp. Even we can't produce false timestamps. If someone offered us a million dollars, we still couldn't produce a false timestamp.

Why not? A DigiStamp timestamp offers you three layers of security:

• An audit trail from two independent authorities proving that our equipment does exactly what we say it does.
• State-of-the-art software that meets the highest established standards.
• Uniquely customized hardware that cannot be tampered with.

Details on this security are available here.Details on why our product works are available here.

Our timestamps have not been successfully challenged in 10 years of operation. Many organizations have trusted us to protect intellectual property and records of great value to their operations.