Patent ID: 8868914

Claim:
A system for maintaining the trust in content, comprising: data content; a digital device having installed therein a trusted clock to provide a certifiable time for an unalterable time stamp, wherein said certifiable time confirms at least one of said data content's access, creation, modification, receipt, or transmission, wherein said trusted clock includes a tamper-evident means, and wherein said trusted clock is initialized in a ceremony witnessed by a plurality of participants; means for receiving a request to save said data content from a user; first means for saving said data content at a moment in time; means for retrieving from said trusted clock a date and a time corresponding to said moment in time, wherein said moment in time is substantially a current time of said trusted clock corresponding to receipt of said request; first means for coupling said date and said time retrieved from said trusted clock to said data content; first means for signing said data content with said date and said time retrieved from said trusted clock coupled thereto; means for hashing said data content to produce a digest; second means for signing said digest with a key to produce a certificate; second means for coupling said certificate to said data content; second means for saving said data content with said certificate coupled thereto; and auditable means for verifying trust in the content of said data content with said certificate coupled thereto.