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Content Credential

The preferred nontechnical term for a C2PA Manifest containing signed provenance assertions bound to an asset.

What Content Credential does not show

It can show tamper-evident history but not whether the content is truthful.

Terms this definition uses

C2PA

Related terms in Accessibility and provenance

What a page owes a keyboard, a screen reader and a fact-checker: the accessibility basics and the C2PA vocabulary for proving where a file came from.

Keyboard accessibility · Focus order · Focus indicator · ARIA · Accessible description · Color contrast · Reduced motion · Captions · Audio description · Status message · C2PA assertion · C2PA claim · Claim signature · Manifest store · Content binding · Hard binding · Soft binding · Ingredient · Trust list · landmark · contrast ratio

Questions about Content Credential

What is Content Credential?

The preferred nontechnical term for a C2PA Manifest containing signed provenance assertions bound to an asset.

What does Content Credential not show or guarantee?

It can show tamper-evident history but not whether the content is truthful.

Which area of the glossary does Content Credential belong to?

Accessibility and provenance: What a page owes a keyboard, a screen reader and a fact-checker: the accessibility basics and the C2PA vocabulary for proving where a file came from.

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