Sign a record. Verify it. Then try to forge it.
In the next two minutes you will do all three — and see for yourself why a signed record is easy to trust and nearly impossible to fake.
Live demo coming online soon
Step 1
Choose what to protect
Document fraud has many faces. Pick one to work with — the mechanics you are about to see protect all of them the same way.
Step 2
Fill in the record
This is the data your record will vouch for. The pre-filled example is entirely fictitious — every name, number and date is made up. Edit anything; make it yours. Nothing you type here is stored or logged; the demo keeps only a cryptographic fingerprint, and even that expires after one hour.
Step 3
Sign it
Signing condenses your record into a SHA-256 fingerprint and has the demo signing key vouch for it — the same mechanism the live VeriV platform uses, with a clearly separate demo key. What comes back is a signed record: your data plus a signature that binds every byte of it.
Copy the signed record. It is yours now — you could email it, print it as a QR code, or hand it to a stranger. Anyone can check it; no one can alter it.
Scan with your phone
The verdict appears on your own device, from the real site
Tampered — the signature no longer covers this data
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One field changed — scan it and your phone reports "Invalid"
This record is too long for a QR code — use the copy button instead
Step 4
Verify it
Paste your signed record into the console and press verify. This is the same validation tool that runs on our public verify page — one check: does the signature still match the record, byte for byte?
Valid. That green light is the whole product. Anyone, anywhere, can run this check — no account, no app, no need to take anyone's word for anything.
Step 5
Now be the fraudster
Change something — the amount, one letter of a name, a single digit of a date. Any edit you like. Then verify again.
Invalid. One changed character is all it takes to get caught — and one paste is all it takes to catch it. That asymmetry is the point: forging is hopeless, checking is trivial.
Step 6
One last thing — the address bar
A real fraudster will not send their victims to this tool. They will build their own page that always answers Valid — same colours, same green light, different address. A QR code changes nothing: it is only a doorway, and a forged QR can open onto a forged one.
So the final check is the easiest one: after every scan, look up at the address bar. Verification only counts at veriv.org/verify. If a document tells you to check somewhere else, that instruction is itself the red flag.
Read on — protect yourself from forged documents →Privacy
Nothing you type in this demo is stored.
The demo keeps only a one-way cryptographic fingerprint of your record — never the record itself — and deletes even that after one hour. No accounts, no tracking, no profiling. The site counts page visits in aggregate only, without cookies, and never ties a visit to what you type here.
Want this on your documents?
The same signature, on records that matter
What you just did with a pretend invoice, VeriV does for industrial batch records, certificates and credentials — signed by named, accountable people, verifiable by anyone.
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