Documents

Digitary was originally intended to be used for graduation documents such as degree certificates, European Diploma Supplements and official transcripts, but is increasingly finding use for other documents issued by institutions.

Additional documents about academic achievement include Certificates of Credit, Transcripts for continuing students, the UK's Higher Education Academic Record (HEAR) and Erasmus Transcripts.

Non-academic documents include status letters that are required by banks and tax authorities.

Documents are maintained long-term within Digitary, so are a permanent and reliable record for the career-duration of the graduate that can be authenticated at any time in the graduate's career. Digitary manages document validity and cryptographic integrity by periodically re-signing documents with state of the art digital signatures, so that they are protected against attacks that may break today's cryptographic algorithms at some point in the future.