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Sealed ISNAD Verdicts

This is the issuer surface for ISNAD, the claim-level provenance framework. A verdict published here carries a Live Verify verify: line binding its text to this domain by SHA-256.

A verified ISNAD seal means: "This verdict is the one ISNAD issued, unaltered."

It does not mean the claim is true. It does not mean any independent party endorses the grading. The domain confirming the claim is the domain making it — which is the honest, self-attested position. That is the whole point.

Sealed verdicts

Issuer metadata

The honest authorityBasis is published at /verify/verification-meta.json. It states, plainly, that the authority is ISNAD's own grading of a claim's transmission chain — self-attested, with no external endorsement.

How it works

The verdict text is normalized (Unicode quotes and dashes to ASCII, whitespace collapsed, blank lines removed), then hashed with SHA-256. The verify: line points a client at alizahidraja.com/verify/<hash>, which returns {"status": "verified"}. The binding is cryptographic: any alteration to the visible text changes the hash and breaks the lookup.

Authenticity ≠ truth

Live Verify — the protocol this integrates with — proves the issuer stands behind this exact text. It does not prove the underlying claim is correct. A genuinely issued, unaltered verdict can still be a factually wrong one. ISNAD grades transmission; content is criticized separately.

Live Verify is by Paul Hammant, co-creator of Selenium. See his comparison document for how the two projects compose.