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FRE 902(13) Certification Template — Aevum Receipts

Purpose

This template enables an Aevum deployer to make Aevum receipts self-authenticating in US federal court under FRE 902(13) (Records Generated by an Electronic Process or System) and FRE 803(6) (Business Records Hearsay Exception).

Qualified Person Certification

I, [NAME], [TITLE] at [ORGANIZATION], hereby certify:

  1. I am familiar with the Aevum governance kernel deployed by [ORGANIZATION] and the process by which it generates audit receipts.

  2. The attached Aevum receipts (file hash: [SHA-256 of receipt bundle]) were generated automatically by the Aevum governance kernel, version [X.Y.Z], operating in [ORGANIZATION]'s production environment.

  3. The receipts were generated as a regular practice of [ORGANIZATION]'s AI governance program, at the time of each recorded agent action.

  4. The digital identification process used is as follows:

  5. Each receipt is a COSE_Sign1 structure (RFC 9052) containing an Ed25519 digital signature (RFC 8032) over the SHA3-256 hash (FIPS 202) of the receipt payload in CBOR encoding (RFC 8949).
  6. The signature can be verified by any party using the Aevum issuer public key published at [URL] (SHA-256 fingerprint: [fingerprint]).

  7. Tampering with the receipt payload invalidates the Ed25519 signature, which is detectable by any party running aevum verify-receipt <receipt_file>.

  8. The Merkle inclusion proof (if present) confirms that this receipt was registered in the Rekor v2 transparency log at log index [INDEX], which provides independent third-party corroboration of the receipt's existence and content at the recorded time.

Signed: ___ Date: _______

Notes

  • FRE Advisory Committee Note to 902(13): "The rule is flexible enough to allow certifications... including comparison of hash value."
  • Ed25519 signatures provide non-repudiation equivalent to or stronger than the hash-comparison process explicitly endorsed in the Advisory Committee notes.
  • For eIDAS-equivalent non-repudiation under EU law: consult with a qualified trust service provider to obtain a qualified electronic signature over the same receipt bundle.