What we claim — and what we don't
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Much of this industry oversells. We would rather you know the edges. This page is the public version of the claims register we hold ourselves to — the honest boundary of what a NightSign receipt proves. If a line couldn't survive a lawyer and a security engineer, it isn't here.
What NightSign does
- Records verifiable acknowledgments. It records that a specific person or system acknowledged specific terms, with the time shown on the receipt.
- Produces portable, recomputable receipts.Each receipt carries the information needed to check it later and can be recomputed from the evidence it references — tamper-evident for the recorded fingerprint, so a changed byte won't match.
- Enables independent verification.Anyone you hand a receipt to can verify it — free, no account. You don't have to trust us for the receipt to hold up.
- Keeps documents private. In the current flow, the document is fingerprinted in your browser and its bytes are not sent to NightSign. The receipt carries the fingerprint, not the contents.
What NightSign does not do
- Replace legal advice. NightSign is not a law firm and produces evidence, not counsel. Whether an agreement holds up is a legal question.
- Automatically create binding contracts. It does not, on its own, make an agreement enforceable. Enforceability is decided by contract law, not by NightSign.
- Guarantee identity. An acknowledgment records that someone acted, not who they legally are. Identity is established only when a workflow explicitly includes identity verification.
- Require documents to be disclosed publicly. Nothing has to be published to be verified. A receipt is checkable without exposing the document behind it.
A few more, stated plainly: NightSign is not a notarization and does not act as an accredited time source — the time shown is device- or server-asserted. On-chain anchoring and zero-knowledge features are demo-proven on a standalone Midnight network, not yet live in production. And whether any receipt is accepted as evidence is up to a court or agency, not something we guarantee.