Lawyers, professionals and businesses would find HashRepos invaluable to validate copies of legal documents such as wills, title deeds, contracts and certificates and check whether these documents have been tampered or altered from the original.
Owners of intellectual property stored in digital media including digital art, music, video content, patent illustrations and documents use HashRepos to support their attribution rights.
Use HashRepos to time stamp a digital asset and permanently store it on the blockchain and support your claim to ownership and first publication.
HashRepos works by letting you to store a crypto-graphical hash of your file permanently on the blockchain. A crypto-graphical hash is a mathematical process which transforms or maps a set of data (your file) into a fixed set of characters (the hash).
What’s important to note is that a file or its identical copy will always transform into the same hash value. However, even the slightest change in the file, by a jot or tittle will result in a completely different hash.
Hence, once a file is hashed and the hash is stored on the blockchain, you will always be able to verify whether a copy is identical to the original or whether it has been tampered with.
This has important application for legal documents such as wills, title deeds, contracts and other notarial acts as you will be able check if a copy is identical to the original.
Furthermore, when the hash is placed on the blockchain, the placement is also time-stamped. In this way the bonafide owner of the file can always proof the existence of the file and its contents at a certain point in time.
Creators of digital content, inventors, photographers, artists, musicians and videographers are able to establish when their work was created and support their claim to ownership in the event of a copyright dispute.
Note also, that it is only necessary to store the hash on the blockchain. The hash is also a one way hash, meaning that it is not possible to obtain the contents of the file from the hash. This property ensures that you may keep the original file confidential and only use the hash to confirm the authenticity of a copy.
HashRepos uses the SHA-256 hashing algorithm which is a leading standard in cryptographic applications, most notably used in Bitcoin applications.
Professionals such as lawyers, accountants, inventors, photographers, musicians, artists would all find HashRepos invaluable.
However anyone with a Digital Asset would use HashRepos as a more sure way of recording their stake in the asset.
The Smart Contract is decentralised. It resides on the blockchain and access to it is unstoppable. For an example of a front end using a decentralised platform, visit https://hashrepos.eth.link