Cryptographic seal

Code

OVL-CRYPTO-SEAL

Status

ready — code maturity

Availability

available — whether it is offerable

Ingest

overlay — how a target enters

Rules of Engagement

Not required

Kind

Overlay (a lens over a family)

Whether the assessment’s evidence is intact and in its original order — proven cryptographically, not asserted.

It provides two distinct guarantees: a Merkle lineage proving the order of an assessment was not tampered with, and a per-evidence content digest proving each item is what it was and how strong it is.

The seal is deterministic (it recomputes to the same root), so no finding report can be produced without a provable trail behind it. A signature here proves authenticity and integrity — never the truth of a technical conclusion.