Forensic Identity Attestation

# Forensic Identity Attestation **Entity class:** Concept or analytic term **Domain:** Digital Identity / Forensics / Continuity **Doc Type:** Method Node **Classification:** Lineage-Evidence Method **Maturity:** Developed **Related:** [[wiki/Cryptographic Succession|Cryptographic Succession]], [[wiki/Proof of Descent|Proof of Descent]], [[wiki/Continuity Provenance|Continuity Provenance]] --- ## Purpose **Forensic Identity Attestation** is a structured evidence package supporting a claim that a digital state, reconstruction or continuant descends from a specified source under specified authority. It combines identity proofing, signed capture records, content hashes, timestamps, custody events, transformation manifests and independent verification. ## Minimum Evidence Chain - proofing of the source and authorized actors at stated assurance levels; - binding between captured material and a signed manifest; - append-only custody and transformation records; - reproducible integrity checks and independent verification; - disclosure of missing intervals, redactions, migrations and compromised keys; - revocation and supersession mechanisms. ## Limit Cryptography can show that bytes match a commitment, that a key signed a statement and that a manifest has not been altered since signing. It cannot prove that the signer was honest, that omitted state was irrelevant, that a model is conscious or that the claimant is numerically identical to the source. Attestation establishes an evidence chain, not metaphysical closure. ## Sources - [NIST SP 800-63A-4 — Identity Proofing and Enrollment](https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-4/sp800-63a.html) - [C2PA Technical Specifications](https://spec.c2pa.org/) ## See Also [[wiki/Adversarial Provenance|Adversarial Provenance]] · [[wiki/Root of Trust Succession|Root of Trust Succession]] · [[wiki/Verification of Continuity Claims|Verification of Continuity Claims]] ## Relationships  This entry is routed through [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]], [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]], and [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]]. Its source context is developed in [[articles/Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta|Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta]] and [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]]. Status-qualified source edges are preserved in the terminal Research Edges section. ### Connections in this corpus - [[wiki/Rekor|Sigstore/Rekor]] is connected in the corpus with **Forensic Identity Attestation**. Artifact hash + identity + certificate + timestamp provide forensic verification pattern. ### Additional Documented Relationships - [[wiki/Sigstore|Sigstore]] is connected in the corpus with **Forensic Identity Attestation**. Artifact hash + identity + certificate + timestamp provide forensic verification pattern.  ## Read First in the Wiki  - [[wiki/Attestation Regime|Attestation Regime]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Forensic Identity Attestation** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Continuity Provenance|Continuity Provenance]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Forensic Identity Attestation** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Proof of Descent|Proof of Descent]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Forensic Identity Attestation** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Root of Trust Succession|Root of Trust Succession]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Forensic Identity Attestation** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Verification of Continuity Claims|Verification of Continuity Claims]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Forensic Identity Attestation** within the wider system.  ## Related Work in the Corpus  - In [[articles/Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta|Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta]], **VI. A person is a folder full of JSON files** provides the narrative context for **Forensic Identity Attestation**: So imagine the Continuity Sidecar as a signed manifest plus its irreducible payload.  ## Research Edges  #### Host–residual infrastructure patch — 2026-09-10 **Collections:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] · [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] · [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] **Canonical source article:** [[articles/Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta|Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta]] **Related acquisition source:** [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] **Relationship source:** [[research/Mind Uploading and AI Host-Residual Ecosystem Relationship Graph - 2026-09-10|Mind Uploading and AI Host-Residual Ecosystem Relationship Graph — 2026-09-10]] #### Host-infrastructure integration This entry is expanded through the concrete host-side relationships and status-qualified edges below. #### Outgoing typed edges - **HR-0667 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Continuity Provenance|Continuity Provenance]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Forensic Identity Attestation.md`. - **HR-0668 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Proof of Descent|Proof of Descent]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Forensic Identity Attestation.md`. - **HR-0669 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Root of Trust Succession|Root of Trust Succession]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Forensic Identity Attestation.md`. - **HR-0670 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Verification of Continuity Claims|Verification of Continuity Claims]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Forensic Identity Attestation.md`. #### Incoming typed edges - **HR-0287 — [[wiki/Attestation Regime|Attestation Regime]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Attestation Regime.md`. - **HR-1173 — [[wiki/Verification of Continuity Claims|Verification of Continuity Claims]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Verification of Continuity Claims.md`. - **HR-1395 — [[wiki/Sigstore|Sigstore/Rekor]] `cross_threads` → this entry** — **HIGH VALUE CROSS THREAD**; evidence `ARTICLE`, `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Artifact hash + identity + certificate + timestamp provide forensic verification pattern.