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File fingerprint manifest guide

A local integrity workflow for preserving SHA-256 fingerprints of receipts, reports, screenshots, and record exports without uploading their contents.

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What this page establishes

A cryptographic fingerprint can reveal whether file bytes changed after a manifest was created.

A browser-generated time is not an independent trusted timestamp.

A matching fingerprint does not establish authorship, ownership, accuracy, legality, or completeness.

RFC 3161 timestamp protocol

Practical review sequence

1

Store the manifest separately from the source files.

2

Recheck fingerprints before a professional handoff.

3

Use an independent timestamp authority only when its legal and technical properties are actually required.

Create a local file manifest

Recheck primary sources before acting

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