It has been customary throughout the centuries to record the date of the event, in registers. The practice of associating a date or even a time with an event or a document, also called “timestamping”, has its roots in the need to produce evidence to assert or confirm a right or an obligation during a dispute or litigation. This white paper explains the ins and outs of timestamping in our modern digitized economy.
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Timestamping White Paper
Who is the Timestamping White Paper for?
Evidency provides electronic timestamping services as part of its activities as a trusted service provider, for tracing and recording transactions of all sorts.
The white paper covers the following topics:
- What is electronic timestamping and how does it work?
- The legal admissibility of electronic timestamping as evidence.
- Electronic timestamping and blockchain.
- Requirements for trust service providers.
- Various uses of electronic timestamping.