FareWitness creates hardware-signed capture provenance for photos, videos, and documents — so courts, insurers, and the public can independently verify origin and integrity.
FareWitness is a hardware-secured system that cryptographically signs photos, videos, and documents at the moment of capture, creating a tamper-evident provenance record that others can independently verify.
The Authenticity Crisis
In the Age of Deepfakes, How Do You Verify What Was Captured?
$308.6B
in annual U.S. insurance fraud losses alone. Deepfake incidents surged 10x from 2022 to 2023. When digital evidence can't be trusted, everyone pays. Sources: Coalition Against Insurance Fraud (2022); Sumsub Identity Fraud Report (2023)
Insurance adjusters reject legitimate claims because photos could have been doctored after the fact
Courts struggle to authenticate digital evidence that opposing counsel claims was altered
Journalists can't prove their footage from conflict zones is genuine when governments deny reality
Families lose irreplaceable records when platforms disappear or accounts are compromised
The problem isn't just misinformation — it's that real evidence is no longer trusted. When anything can be faked, everything is questioned.
How It Works
Cryptographic Capture Provenance, From Origin to Verification
FareWitness doesn't just store your files. It produces a verifiable record of the captured file — when and where it was created, and which device signed it. Verification is independent and available to anyone, anytime.
1
Capture
Record photos, videos, or documents using a FareWitness-enabled device. At the exact moment of capture, your file is cryptographically bound to GPS coordinates, timestamps, device identity, and sensor data.
Hardware-signed. A secure element with non-exportable keys signs a cryptographic hash of the capture and metadata at the point of origin. The keys never leave the secure element and are designed to resist extraction and misuse. Signing works even without a data connection — critical for field agents, journalists, and remote locations.
2
Seal
Your evidence receives a Truth Envelope — a signed record containing the file hash, capture timestamp, device identifier, and cryptographic signature. This tamper-evident certificate binds all capture conditions to the file, establishing verifiable capture provenance.
Tamper-evident. If even one byte changes, signature verification fails. The envelope travels with the media and can be verified later.
3
Verify
Investigators, journalists, insurers, and courts can independently verify the origin and integrity of your evidence. No account needed. No platform dependency.
Independent verification. You don't need to trust FareWitness, the uploader, or any platform. The signature verifies, or it doesn't.
Example: An insurance adjuster receives a video recorded with a FareWitness device. The adjuster runs the verification tool, which confirms: the file hash matches the signed capture record, the device signature is valid, and the file has not been altered since capture. The claim proceeds with confidence.
Where Truth Has Consequences
Verifiable Capture Provenance for High-Stakes Situations
When authenticity determines the outcome, FareWitness provides verifiable capture provenance that can be independently examined.
Insurance
Insurance fraud costs the industry billions annually. Legitimate claimants suffer when adjusters can't trust submitted evidence. FareWitness timestamps and cryptographically signs damage documentation at the scene.
Property damageAuto accidentsInventory verificationConstruction records
Legal & Courts
Digital evidence is increasingly challenged in litigation. FareWitness provides cryptographic proof of origin and integrity designed to support evidentiary review — establishing cryptographic provenance from capture through presentation.
Personal injuryIP disputesCriminal proceedingsEstate records
Journalism & Research
War correspondents and investigative journalists operate where footage is routinely dismissed as propaganda. FareWitness lets reporters verify the origin and integrity of their footage — even from conflict zones with no internet.
Some records can never be recreated. FareWitness preserves authenticated documentation of high-value assets, estate records, and critical personal archives with hardware-backed provenance. Establishing verifiable provenance for high-value assets reduces insurance friction and ensures litigation readiness for estate and commercial disputes.
Estate documentationWills & trustsHome inventoryAsset records
The Truth Coin™
Your Personal Witness. Physical. Hardware-Protected.
FareWitness isn't just software on a phone. The Truth Coin is a dedicated hardware artifact — a portable, tamper-resistant hardware module that anchors capture signing in a device-based root of trust, binding digital records to hardware-protected signing keys — not software promises.
The Physical Anchor
Like a hardware wallet for crypto, the Truth Coin stores non-exportable signing keys in a dedicated tamper-resistant secure element. Your trust lives in an object you hold — not a platform you rely on.
Human-Centric Binding
The Truth Coin doesn't just record data — it can bind the record to the device holder or, where configured, to an authenticated user identity. Your signing key and capture context are cryptographically bound to the record, with optional identity attestation for scenarios that require it.
Cross-Platform Attestation
Plug the Truth Coin into your phone or laptop to hardware-sign any capture at the point of origin. Additional form factors — body cam, drone, IoT — are on our product roadmap.
Machine-Readable Output
Every Truth Coin capture produces a machine-readable Truth Manifest — the structured metadata payload within the Truth Envelope — that AI agents and automated systems can validate programmatically.
FareWitness combines hardware-protected signing, capture metadata, and independent verification into a unified capture-provenance system — a trust architecture from hardware to application layer, developed by inventor Richard J. Stoner.
Hardware Root of Trust
Each FareWitness device contains a tamper-resistant secure element storing a private signing key with non-exportable key storage. The private key never leaves the device. At the moment of capture, the media file is hashed, metadata is collected (device ID, timestamp, optional GPS), and the hardware-protected key signs the hash. Firmware integrity protection ensures the capture environment is in a known, auditable state. Forgery requires compromising the device's secure element or private key. Each device contains a unique signing key generated inside the secure element during manufacturing; the corresponding public key is used for verification.
Truth Envelope
A signed provenance record containing the file hash, capture metadata, and device signature. Optional sensor metadata (GPS, accelerometer, compass, ambient light, barometric pressure) can be included to record capture context. The Truth Manifest is the structured metadata payload embedded within each Truth Envelope. Any alteration to the signed record is detectable.
The file matches the original signed capture record
Capture device identity
Capture metadata (time, location, sensor context)
Whether the file has changed since capture
What FareWitness Does Not Guarantee
The truthfulness of a scene
Absence of staging
Completeness of a recording
Lawful collection of evidence
These remain questions for investigators, courts, or organizational policy.
Developer & Agent Infrastructure
Built for AI-Integrated Workflows
FareWitness isn't just an app — it's verification infrastructure. We provide media inputs with cryptographically verifiable provenance that AI agents can validate programmatically in high-stakes workflows.
01 — API
Agentic Verification API
Any autonomous agent — legal, insurance, or financial — can verify a Truth Envelope in milliseconds via our RESTful API. Returns a JSON response confirming device signature, location metadata, and file integrity.
Each device exposes a verifiable device identity and signed provenance record for API-based verification.
response_signature — FareWitness Cloud Attestation: a cryptographically signed receipt of the verification result itself.
RESTfulJSON ResponseSub-second
02 — Metadata
Machine-Readable Trust Metadata
Every FareWitness capture includes a structured, machine-readable metadata layer. We generate C2PA-compatible provenance manifests, augmented with device-generated attestation metadata describing the signing environment. Documentation uses the Model Context Protocol (MCP) so agents can discover and use FareWitness tools autonomously.
C2PA ManifestsJSON-LDMCP DocsMachine-Readable
03 — SDK
Truth-in-the-Loop SDK
Integrate FareWitness capture directly into your enterprise workflows. Use our SDK to ensure every photo taken by your field staff is hardware-signed at the point of origin, with your organization's identity cryptographically bound to the capture record.
iOS / AndroidEmbedded SigningEnterprise SSO
Provenance-Checked Inputs for Autonomous Agents
The most acute AI reliability risk isn't a model that hallucinates — it's a model fed manipulated or fabricated media. FareWitness provides hardware-rooted provenance verification via API — enabling autonomous agents to programmatically verify capture provenance before making decisions based on media inputs.
Trust, Safety & Federal Compliance
Informed by Emerging Federal Integrity Approaches
Federal policy is shifting toward risk-based validation of software and hardware security — moving beyond self-attestation. FareWitness is designed for environments that require independently verifiable capture provenance, informed by emerging federal approaches to hardware-rooted integrity.
Federal Compliance
Closing the Attestation Gap
Legacy standards allowed software producers to simply "sign off" on their own security. Federal mandates are shifting toward risk-based validation. FareWitness utilizes hardware-protected signing keys built on a tamper-resistant secure element to sign capture records at the point of origin. The secure element provides non-exportable key storage and cryptographic integrity designed to align with federal physical security requirements.
Content Authenticity
Synthetic Media Injection Defense
Industry threat models for content authenticity — including those from C2PA and NIST — identify synthetic media injection, sensor manipulation, and virtual-camera attacks as key risks. FareWitness reduces the risk of post-capture manipulation by signing media with hardware-protected keys at the moment of capture, reducing the risk of software-only manipulation and strengthening the integrity of the capture pipeline.
Platform-Independent Verification
Independent Evidence Verification
Designed for environments that require independently verifiable capture provenance, a FareWitness file can be verified by investigators, journalists, or oversight offices without a subscription or platform access. The signed provenance record travels with the file and can be verified independently — no centralized database required, protecting sensitive PII from unnecessary exposure.
Request a Federal Technical Briefing
We invite agency CIOs, General Counsel, and OIG offices to a 15-minute technical briefing on moving from attestation-as-promise to hardware-rooted capture provenance — and how FareWitness provides independently verifiable capture provenance aligned with emerging federal approaches to risk-based validation.
Inventor and NASA research collaborator known as the "Father of Aeroponics." Richard applied his experience in embedded sensor instrumentation and network infrastructure (Lucent Technologies) to design the FareWitness cryptographic capture architecture. His NASA sensor work directly informs the multi-sensor fusion (GPS, ambient light, barometric pressure) used in the Truth Envelope to record the physical context of each capture.
"In an age where anything can be faked, the ability to verify origin and integrity becomes indispensable."
Early Access
Join the Early Access Pilot
FareWitness is rolling out to select partners in legal, insurance, journalism, and enterprise sectors. Join the early access list for priority enrollment and partnership opportunities.
