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Progress Report: Protected Change-Tracking

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Change-tracking of digital documents leads to document alteration in some manner. Protected Change-Tracking (PCT) is a response to the question, "How can one protect word-processing documents against alteration, verifiable by digital signature, and make signed amendments that are verified to be allowed modifications of the original document?" A genealogical model is identified that preserves the digital signature of the ancestor and each change-tracked descendant. PCT achieves a subset of genealogical cases having practical simplicity. Applicability to documents in ODF format is sketched.

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DChanges '14: Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on (Document) Changes: modeling, detection, storage and visualization
September 2014
38 pages
ISBN:9781450329644
DOI:10.1145/2723147
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Published: 16 September 2014

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  1. OpenDocument
  2. WYSIWYG
  3. change tracking
  4. change-protected documents
  5. digital signatures
  6. document formats

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