Documents

Digitary was originally intended to be used for graduation documents such as degree certificates, European Diploma Supplements and official transcripts, but is increasingly finding use for other documents issued by institutions.

Additional documents about academic achievement include Certificates of Credit, transcripts for continuing students, the UK's Higher Education Academic Report (HEAR) and the Australian Higher Education Graduation Statement (AHEGS).

Non-academic documents include status letters that are required by banks and tax authorities.

Documents can be maintained for the long-term within Digitary, so are a permanent and reliable record for the career-duration of the graduate that can be authenticated at any time in the graduate's career. Digitary manages the validity and cryptographic integrity of long term documents by periodically re-signing documents with state of the art digital signatures, so that they are protected against attacks that may break today's cryptographic algorithms at some point in the future.

Shorter-term documents can be deployed for finite periods, e.g. for the official period of enrollment.

Because original Digitary documents reside in an institution-controlled repository, they can be revoked should the need arise and the institution can choose to inform people who have authenticated them.