ANCHORS · OPEN RECEIPT FAMILY FOR EU LAW
Anchors is a family of nineteen wire formats that produce signed, independently verifiable receipts for the events EU law now treats as auditable — consent, retention, transfers, AI evaluations, delegations, breaches, subject rights, and impact assessments.
DESIGN PRINCIPLES
Signed at source
Every receipt carries an Ed25519 signature from the issuing system's registered key. No retroactive edits, no silent reissues, no central authority to compel.
Anchored daily
Receipts are committed into a daily Merkle root published at a fixed URL. Tampering invalidates the root — the failure mode is visible to anyone who keeps a copy.
Independently verifiable
The wire format, the verifier, and the test vectors are public. Any third party can check a receipt without contacting the issuer.
19 RECEIPT FAMILIES
Each member commits to a different kind of fact. They share a single envelope, Ed25519 signature scheme, and Merkle anchoring — they differ only in what the receipt body claims. The wire identifier ar.<noun>.v<N> is the contract.
Any receipt.
One verifier.
All 19 families resolve to a single endpoint. Paste any claim ID to verify a receipt, check its anchor, and inspect the issuer signature.
STANDARDS POSTURE
Open specification
CC0 spec, Apache-2.0 code. No specification fee, no member-only access.
RAND-Z patent posture
W3C-style non-assertion covenant in PATENTS.md. Any conformant implementation runs royalty-free.
Conformance program
Test vectors, a clean-room verifier, and a public anchor probe. Third parties prove conformance without our cooperation.
Transferable governance
Designed for CEN-CENELEC JTC 21, ETSI TC ESI, or W3C VC. RAND-Z IPR, published change-control process.
ENDPOINTS
Anchored Receipts are cryptographic provenance and privacy-lifecycle protocols. verify.dekimu.com is a reference implementation, not a qualified trust service under Regulation (EU) No 910/2014 (eIDAS) or successor.