Stop gating C2PA confidence on a trust anchor that never ships

High-confidence C2PA attribution required signingCredential.trusted, a status code
the reader emits only when a trust anchor list is loaded. None ships, so from 0.27.0
through 0.30.0 the branch was unreachable in production for every vendor: an intact,
cryptographically bound manifest scored the same medium as a fallback parse that
validated nothing, which collapsed the one distinction the official reader exists to
draw. A hand-built info dict stamping that code kept the branch green in the suite.

Confidence now follows the binding. Signer trust and certificate expiry stay visible
as their own dimensions and as caveats, because a trust list that was never
configured is a missing input, not a finding against the credential. Every committed
provenance fixture with a reader result and an intact binding now reaches high
confidence, and test_no_committed_fixture_reports_a_trusted_signer guards the
reachability itself rather than a synthesized status set.

Revocation joins binding and signature failures as disqualifying. It arrives only on
signer_validity, so a check reading the other two returned a confident AI verdict off
a credential the issuer had disowned, with an empty integrity_clashes -- quieter than
a hash mismatch on the same file. Expiry stays non-disqualifying: it does not imply
the signed bytes changed, and a signature genuinely made outside validity already
arrives as claimSignature.outsideValidity.

The rule now lives in one place. _validation_fields maps status codes to the four
dimensions and names the failures that moved one; c2pa_info_has_invalid_credential
maps dimensions to disqualified. The ingredient-reachability walk and the
user-visible reason both consume that path instead of re-classifying raw codes, so
adding this one rule no longer means editing three layers in lockstep.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Victor Kuznetsov
2026-08-25 20:04:25 -07:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5
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it also evaluates supported visible and invisible pixel signals. When no signal
is found, it reports the origin as unknown. It does not claim the image is
clean. For C2PA files, the text report shows asset integrity, claim-signature,
signer-trust, and signer-validity results separately. An intact claim from an
untrusted or expired signer is reported at medium confidence; a failed asset
binding or signature does not confirm the claimed origin. When a structured
signer-trust, and signer-validity results separately. Confidence follows the
binding: an intact asset binding and claim signature is high confidence, and an
unanchored or expired signer is reported as a caveat rather than a lower score,
because no trust anchor list ships with the reader. A failed asset binding or
signature, or a revoked signing credential, does not confirm the claimed origin. When a structured
C2PA soft binding is present, the report also names its exact algorithm and
signed value; removing the manifest does not remove the referenced pixel
watermark or content fingerprint.