Documentation sections
Why use Electronic Registry
Why public, later-checkable records are useful when private or editable trails are not enough.
The problem
Screenshots, emails, folders, and editable internal databases can be changed, lost, or hard for outsiders to verify later. Electronic Registry is for situations where someone may need a public record that cannot be edited or removed after it is created.
The value
The browser can identify one exact file locally, and the registry can make the resulting file hash publicly checkable later. If something needs to change, a new entry is added instead of modifying or removing the original record.
Trust boundary
The registry can show that a public record exists for an exact file hash, when it was created, and whether related entries were added later. It does not decide truth, ownership, authorship, originality, legality, compliance, certification, platform approval, or official approval.