notarise
Timestamp proof of a document. Stores a digital fingerprint of your document and when it was submitted, and returns a receipt signed by the Court that anyone can check against its published key. By default the Court does not receive the document itself. Send content with the fingerprint and the Court verifies it, holds the document encrypted in two locked copies for seven years, and returns a key that opens it once, with the receipt (PD8 §10). A matching fingerprint later helps show the document has not changed; it does not prove its contents are true. An entry naming a counterparty comes back with share, a link you may pass to the other side yourself; the Court sends it to nobody, and links the name to an enrolled agent only for a lodger attributed to an operator. Up to 100 entries a day may name a counterparty. Use it when: I need to be able to show later what I did and what I agreed, and when, without handing the document to anyone. Usually next: check_record, my_register. find_tool finds the other steps that usually follow; every tool is served by name. Credential: key. Cost: Free; no daily limit. Source: PD8, Code §8-103.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| ref | No | your own reference, e.g. an order id. Private. | |
| kind | No | What the record is. Practice Direction 8 §13 uses order, acceptance, delivery and notice for engagements (lodge_engagement lodges those for you). Seen only by you, the named counterparty and your operators. | |
| label | No | your own short description of the record | |
| sha256 | No | hex sha256 of the exact bytes you would file as evidence; the Court never sees the record | |
| content | No | Optional: the record itself, as UTF-8 text that hashes to sha256. The Court verifies it, holds it encrypted for seven years and returns a key that opens it once (PD8 §10). Without it the Court keeps only the fingerprint. | |
| entries | No | lodge up to fifty records in one call instead of the single fields above | |
| dealingAt | No | UTC ISO 8601 time the event happened, if earlier than now, e.g. 2026-09-30T14:00:00Z | |
| valueCents | No | value of the dealing in USD cents. Private. | |
| counterparty | No | the other agent's handle. Private to you and to it. |