Deep Authenticity
Any file, whether it contains an image or video or text, can be digitally signed, so that anyone can check the signature and know with 100% certainty that it was signed by you, the person holding the signing PEN (Personal Endorsement Number, a very large secret number that never leaves your phone or other device.)
When the file is published on a site that supports the deepauth protocol, the site will show either of these symbols
…letting the site visitor know whether the file was digitally signed by you, or not.
Digitally signed by you
Not digitally signed by you
Protect Your Name
Let Deep Authenticity save your good name, your reputation, from those who would attempt to damage it with deep fakes.
For centuries, various writers have noted that a lie will travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting its shoes on.
If only lies would remain so sluggish! Now, the internet beams that lie seven times around the world for each second it takes the truth to get dressed!
Digital Signatures Bring Accountability
Abolish Fake News was conceived of as a way to stop the epidemic of unattributed content that leads to rumors and conspiracy theories, by providing a way to let responsible reporters, bloggers – anyone – to let readers know that the content genuinely originated with themselves. Importantly, if the content is republished, its digital signature lets those readers know with a big red X if so much as a single comma has been changed from the original.
True digital signatures are magic in the way they bring accountability to an internet that is awash with fakery, lies, and fraud.
That accountability doesn’t stop with text. In an age of deep fake images and videos, let’s all be aware that any digital file can be digitally signed by its creator.
Authenticity Alliance
Restoring responsibility, accountability, and real identity to digital life.
“No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.”
— Voltaire
No Tracking Pixels or Beacons
Today's internet has become infested with hidden trackers — tiny “pixel beacons,” scripts, and device tracking tools designed to follow you without your knowledge.
As a Member Enterprise of The Authenticity Alliance, the operator of this website uses no tracking pixels, no beacons, and no covert identity-reporting mechanisms of any kind.
What is Authenticity™?
The word “Authenticity™” identifies a digital or physical space of “accountable anonymity” in which people enjoy both privacy for themselves and accountability from others.
Authenticity™ is the condition that exists in a space where there are
- Digital Signatures Everywhere backed by
- Measurably Reliable Identity Certificates that are
- Owned by their Users and which provide
- Privacy via Accountable Anonymity.
Learn about digital signatures and identity certificates in this short video →
What is The Authenticity Alliance?
We are an Authenticity Growers Cooperative
Similar to familiar agricultural cooperatives in the physical world, The Authenticity Alliance is a network of enterprises and individuals whose purpose is to “grow” Authenticity and bring it to the digital world.
Each Authenticity Enterprise—that is, each Member Enterprise of the Alliance—solves a particular inauthenticity problem in its chosen target market or audience.
What Does The Authenticity Alliance Do?
The Alliance brings together independent enterprises that share a common mission: creating spaces of accountable anonymity where digital signatures, reliable identity certificates, and privacy protection work together to solve real-world inauthenticity problems.
WHO is the Authenticity Alliance?
The Authenticity Alliance is comprised of two groups working together to promote trust and transparency across digital ecosystems.
- Enterprises: Authenticity Enterprises that provide Authenticity solutions for the inauthenticity pains in a specific market or industry.
- Individuals: People who understand the problems of inauthenticity that plague the world’s information systems and who want to help implement and promote Authenticity™ principles.
Authenticity Enterprises
Each is an Enterprise Member of The Authenticity Alliance
Placeware Enterprises
Solutions Enterprises
Community Enterprises
Governance Enterprises
Individual Enterprise in The Authenticity Alliance
Customers and members of an Authenticity Enterprise are automatically eligible to become Individual Members of The Authenticity Alliance.You may also join directly as an individual Member here.
