Public proof should preserve privacy.
Useful public proof does not require placing the private file itself on a public ledger.
Verification
Public Proof
Understand how public proof can support independent checking without exposing private files or confidential content.
Public proof is designed to make evidence more independently checkable without forcing private content into public view. The public reference may support timing, anchoring, or integrity checks while the private evidence remains protected.
Core principles
How this verification route should be read.
Verification is useful because it is specific. These principles keep the record, the claim, and the limits separate.
Anchoring is not the whole evidence package.
A public anchor can support an integrity or timing reference, but the receipt and evidence context explain what the anchor relates to.
Independent checking strengthens trust boundaries.
Evidence is stronger when a check does not depend entirely on the same private system that created or benefits from the record.
publicProof
What this explains.
Public reference
Public proof helps separate private files from public verification.
The public layer may contain a privacy-preserving reference. The private receipt or proof package explains the relationship between that public reference and the file or record being evidenced.
Blockchain anchoring
A blockchain anchor can support public timing and integrity checks.
Anchoring can make a record harder to quietly rewrite later, but it must be interpreted through the relevant receipt and EviWrite verification context.
Boundary
Public proof is not public disclosure of all facts.
A public proof item should not be treated as proof of ownership, permission, truth, or legal outcome unless those claims are separately supported.
Important
Verification checks evidence context. It does not decide the whole dispute.
EviWrite verification helps check EviWrite-backed records, receipts, public proof, proof links, and evidential context. It does not replace legal advice, courts, regulators, investigators, expert witnesses, official registers, or factual review.