Textual Provenance Sealing and Verification

Recent events have highlighted the harmful effects of fake news during times of crisis. To effectively address this issue, it is beneficial to provide the end user with contextual information, enabling a more comprehensive formation of opinions on the matter. This paper proposes a method to "seal" articles and allow for later "verification" of the origin and author. The proposed method allows for integrity control, alerting the user if a quote from a known article has been tampered, and provenance tracking, providing additional information like the publication timestamp and original publication page.