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  CONTINUUM · THE NAKED FRAME  —  verify it yourself
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What you're holding:
  • sealed_frame.png      a frame sealed by Continuum Engine
  • record.json           its public provenance record (a few lines)
  • naked_frame_verify.py  a standalone checker (no internet, no access to us)
  • READ-ME-FIRST.txt      this file

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THE POINT
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Every other provenance approach stores proof as metadata attached
to the file. Re-encode the file and that proof is stripped.

The Naked Frame keys proof to the PIXELS. So you can destroy the
file's metadata, change its format, resize it, rename it — and the
provenance still comes back, from the image itself.

Don't take our word for it. Break it yourself.

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TRY TO BREAK IT (do your worst)
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Open sealed_frame.png in any editor and do any or all of these:
  • Export/save it as a JPEG (recompress it)
  • Resize it smaller
  • Rename it to anything you like
  • Screenshot it and use the screenshot
  • Strip all metadata (re-encoding already does this)

Save your mangled version. It now shares no metadata — and often
not a single identical byte — with the original.

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NOW VERIFY IT (offline, on your machine)
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You need Python 3 with Pillow and numpy:
    pip install pillow numpy

Then run:
    python3 naked_frame_verify.py <your_mangled_file> record.json

You'll see the full provenance recovered from the pixels alone:
the shot, the real owned sources, the approvals, the consent —
plus whether your file is the exact sealed original or a re-encoded
copy of the same image.

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WHAT THE VERDICTS MEAN (we state this honestly)
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  IDENTICAL_TO_SEALED       the exact sealed bytes, untouched
  SAME_IMAGE_RECOMPRESSED   same frame, re-encoded — provenance holds
  NO_MATCH                  not the sealed frame

Note: this recovers provenance for the same image after normal
pipeline operations (recompression, resize, format change). It is
not a claim that a heavily repainted or cropped image is
recoverable — we don't overstate it. What it proves is exactly
what metadata-based tools cannot: the record survives re-encoding.

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  Embur Inc. · Continuum Engine · embur.world/continuum
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