Your First Manifest

A website publishes an identity document called a Universal Manifest. A validating application fetches it and checks every field to decide whether to trust it. Walk through each check to see how the protocol works.

Publishing Website

A web property that created this manifest and is publishing it for others to verify.

SITE

Validating Application

An application that fetches the manifest and checks each field before deciding whether to trust it.

CONSUMER
Subject: A minimal v0.1 Universal Manifest published by Site Alpha and consumed by Consumer Beta.
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