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 **Tamper-proof receipts for any decision your software makes.** Sign a piece of structured data with a key that is **born, used once, and destroyed in the same breath** — then prove, forever, that the record was never touched. Pure Python, zero mandatory dependencies, local-first. 
 
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 **An open project from [Aether](https://aethersystems.net)** · Apache-2.0 · `pip install git+https://github.com/AetherAI3/PROTOCOL-C.git`