Verification register Security & Identity
Current reading
The readiness gap, in one scan
AI-assisted assembly · derived results
- Claimed
- 85
- Reported
- 79
- Verified
- 69
- Gap
- +16
Public ambition and stated capability
Observed practitioner reporting
Independently supported evidence
Claimed minus verified
Evidence strength Strong
Decision
What the current evidence supports
Human editorial judgment · 2026-06-28
Adopt with guardrails
- Why
- Mature, broadly adopted standard (Adobe, OpenAI, Google, Canon/Sony/Nikon; 6,000+ CAI members) with a live Trust List, but peer-reviewed security gaps, sub-1% real-world penetration, and metadata fragility mean it cannot stand alone for high-stakes provenance.
- Next
- Treat C2PA as a positive-only signal layer behind an existing crypto root: bind timestamps externally, enforce revocation/expiry checking in our own validator, pair with watermarking+fingerprinting for durability, and never present 'missing credential' as evidence of fakery in user-facing copy.
Constraints
Blockers
No named blocker is present in the current public projection.
Evidence summary
Derived counts
AI-assisted assembly
- Total
- 8
- Tier 1
- 0
- Tier 2
- 4
- Tier 3
- 4
- Supports
- 5
- Contradicts
- 3
- Context
- 0
- Latest observed
- 2026-04-23
Counts and dates only. Raw signals, private excerpts, trust records, and internal corpus material are not published here.
Publication record
Revisions
Initial public reading
This is the initial public reading. No earlier readiness change is recorded.