TeXposit Tutorial

17. Provenance & Authorship Certification

How to generate provenance reports and verify authorship for submissions.

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TeXposit provenance is a cryptographically signed record of who wrote what: deterministic, not probabilistic. Attribution comes from the actual edit history, not from statistical analysis.

See the full explanation:texposit.com/provenance (includes a live Source View demo)

Generating a Report

Open the project in the editor. Select Edit → Provenance. The panel has two tabs:

  • Reports: list of existing reports with preview on the right. Click Generate Report to create a new one. This also recompiles the document PDF with metadata tied to the report.
  • Source View: the document itself, colour-coded by author. Hover to see who wrote a segment and when. The history dropdown lets you step back through any past revision.

Sharing & Submitting

When submitting your work, attach the provenance report PDF or share the Report ID (10-character code like M7KX2AQPNR) alongside your document.

For reviewers: Direct them to app.texposit.com/provenance where they can enter your Project ID or Report ID, or upload the PDF, to confirm the report integrity.

For journals with API integration: The verification endpoint returns structured JSON (HMAC validity, contributor breakdown, word stats) for automated triage.

Key Report Fields

Report ID

10-character ID unique to this report. Printed on every page.

Project ID

Project UUID, stable across all reports for the same project.

Contributors

Name, words, edits (%). AI appears as "AI (TeXposit)".

Word stats

Human vs AI vs template words.

HMAC-SHA256

Signature over report ID, project ID, timestamp, and PDF hash.