Electronic Storage Specifications for use of Visible Digital Seal (VDS) for the authentication, verification and acquisition of data carried by a document or object

This document specifies the Visible Digital Seal (VDS) data structure. The document also specifies possible forms of representation, generation and verification processes applicable to Visible Digital Seals. This document contains support for future types of data encoding. All formats and processes are irrespective of the documents or objects they relate to. This document does not establish the requirements to implement and deploy VDSs, nor the detailed Response Formatting Functions (RFF).