What is Provenance? (content or image provenance)
Provenance is the recorded origin and edit history of a piece of content: where it came from, what created it, and how it changed. Strong provenance is cryptographically verifiable (C2PA); weaker provenance is metadata that can be edited (EXIF, XMP). ChronoVerify is provenance-first: it validates the strongest available provenance and degrades gracefully to metadata and pixel signals when none is present.
Why it matters
Provenance is the core of what ChronoVerify checks. It validates the strongest available provenance on a photo and falls back to metadata and pixel signals when none is present, then returns one verdict with the signals behind it. A verdict is investigative triage for human review, not a courtroom guarantee.
Run a photo through it and see Provenance in the result.
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