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<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="executive.html">1. Executive summary</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="what-verae-provides.html">2. What Verae provides — and what it does not</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="datacube-server.html">3. The Verae DataCube Server Solution</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="data-in-transit.html">4. Secure communications — data in transit</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="data-at-rest.html">5. Encryption at rest — IPFS blocks and Peergos</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="timestamped-receipts.html">6. Global timestamped receipts</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="peergos-eu-evaluations.html">7. Peergos security evaluations in Europe</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="global-timestamping.html">8. Verae global timestamping — a cross-blockchain receipt</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="iceberg-archive.html">9. Write-once Iceberg archive</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="architecture.html">10. Architecture for an audit interview</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="baa-dpa.html">11. BAAs, DPAs, and ciphertext without host keys</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="checklist.html">12. Audit-ready checklist</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="howto.html">13. How to use this briefing</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="bio-james-garfinkel.html">14. James H. Garfinkel</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1 current"><a class="current reference internal" href="#">15. Stuart Haber</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="#role-at-verae">15.1. Role at Verae</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="#the-scientific-work">15.2. The scientific work</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="#surety-1994-first-commercial-blockchain">15.3. Surety, 1994: first commercial blockchain</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="#other-cryptographic-publications">15.4. Other cryptographic publications</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="#why-this-biography-is-in-the-briefing">15.5. Why this biography is in the briefing</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="what-verae-provides.html">1. What Verae provides — and what it does not</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="datacube-server.html">2. The Verae DataCube Server Solution</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="data-in-transit.html">3. Secure communications — data in transit</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="data-at-rest.html">4. Encryption at rest — IPFS blocks and Peergos</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="timestamped-receipts.html">5. Global timestamped receipts</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="peergos-eu-evaluations.html">6. Peergos security evaluations in Europe</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="global-timestamping.html">7. Verae global timestamping — a cross-blockchain receipt</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="iceberg-archive.html">8. Write-once Iceberg archive</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="architecture.html">9. Architecture for an audit interview</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="baa-dpa.html">10. BAAs, DPAs, and ciphertext without host keys</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="checklist.html">11. Audit-ready checklist</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="howto.html">12. How to use this briefing</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="bio-james-garfinkel.html">13. James H. Garfinkel</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1 current"><a class="current reference internal" href="#">14. Stuart Haber</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="#role-at-verae">14.1. Role at Verae</a></li>
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<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="#surety-1994-first-commercial-blockchain">14.3. Surety, 1994: first commercial blockchain</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="#other-cryptographic-publications">14.4. Other cryptographic publications</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="#why-this-biography-is-in-the-briefing">14.5. Why this biography is in the briefing</a></li>
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<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="bio-george-lambert.html">15. George Lambert</a></li>
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<section id="stuart-haber">
<h1><span class="section-number">15. </span>Stuart Haber<a class="headerlink" href="#stuart-haber" title="Link to this heading"></a></h1>
<h1><span class="section-number">14. </span>Stuart Haber<a class="headerlink" href="#stuart-haber" title="Link to this heading"></a></h1>
<section id="role-at-verae">
<h2><span class="section-number">15.1. </span>Role at Verae<a class="headerlink" href="#role-at-verae" title="Link to this heading"></a></h2>
<h2><span class="section-number">14.1. </span>Role at Verae<a class="headerlink" href="#role-at-verae" title="Link to this heading"></a></h2>
<p><strong>Stuart Haber</strong> is a <strong>co-founder of Verae</strong>. The companys
public site introduces him as one of the creators of
blockchain and as the inventor, in 1991, of cryptographic
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being sealed.</p>
</section>
<section id="the-scientific-work">
<h2><span class="section-number">15.2. </span>The scientific work<a class="headerlink" href="#the-scientific-work" title="Link to this heading"></a></h2>
<h2><span class="section-number">14.2. </span>The scientific work<a class="headerlink" href="#the-scientific-work" title="Link to this heading"></a></h2>
<p>Haber is a cryptographer. He worked at <strong>Bellcore</strong> (Bell
Communications Research) in Morristown, New Jersey, in the
late 1980s and 1990s, in the research culture descended from
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claim that Verae is Bitcoin.</p>
</section>
<section id="surety-1994-first-commercial-blockchain">
<h2><span class="section-number">15.3. </span>Surety, 1994: first commercial blockchain<a class="headerlink" href="#surety-1994-first-commercial-blockchain" title="Link to this heading"></a></h2>
<h2><span class="section-number">14.3. </span>Surety, 1994: first commercial blockchain<a class="headerlink" href="#surety-1994-first-commercial-blockchain" title="Link to this heading"></a></h2>
<p>Haber and Stornetta took the research into production as
<strong>Surety</strong>. Surety hashed customer documents, linked those
hashes in a chain of certificates, and published a weekly
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the same idea Verae productizes for enterprise compliance.</p>
</section>
<section id="other-cryptographic-publications">
<h2><span class="section-number">15.4. </span>Other cryptographic publications<a class="headerlink" href="#other-cryptographic-publications" title="Link to this heading"></a></h2>
<h2><span class="section-number">14.4. </span>Other cryptographic publications<a class="headerlink" href="#other-cryptographic-publications" title="Link to this heading"></a></h2>
<p>Habers research record is broader than timestamping. It
includes work on minimum-knowledge interactive proofs,
symmetric public-key encryption, and secure multi-party
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Cryptology</em> article, then the ACM CCS 1997 paper.</p>
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<section id="why-this-biography-is-in-the-briefing">
<h2><span class="section-number">15.5. </span>Why this biography is in the briefing<a class="headerlink" href="#why-this-biography-is-in-the-briefing" title="Link to this heading"></a></h2>
<h2><span class="section-number">14.5. </span>Why this biography is in the briefing<a class="headerlink" href="#why-this-biography-is-in-the-briefing" title="Link to this heading"></a></h2>
<p>Timestamping in this document is not a metaphor. It is a
specific scientific object — hash, time, sequence, privacy
of the document from the notary — that Haber defined in