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Have you ever taken a photo of your passport, diploma or any other important document? One out of four manages their personal documents already digitally. By doing so, all security features are rendered void and verification is a hassle.
sproof revolutionizes the way we secure digital documents and data by creating a unique digital signature for each document. We use the power of decentralization to make issuing, revoking and verifying digital documents easy, fast and secure.
sproof provides an easy to use API that can be integrated in any application for digitally signing important documents.
Issue your diploma digitally. Fast, secure and easy to verify.
Have you ever taken a photo of your passport, diploma or any other important document? One out of four manages their personal documents already digitally. By doing so, all security features are rendered void and verification is a hassle.
sproof revolutionizes the way we secure digital documents and data by creating a unique digital signature for each document. We use the power of decentralization to make issuing, revoking and verifying digital documents easy, fast and secure.
sproof provides an easy to use API that can be integrated in any application for digitally signing important documents.
Issue your diploma digitally. Fast, secure and easy to verify.
Decentralized
sproof is completely decentralized and every entity manages their documents themselves. sproof does not act as an intermediary and thus does not need to be trusted.
Scalable
sproof is open and the source code can be verified by everyone. The sproof protocol is publicly available and sproof is documented in peer-reviewed scientific publications.
Transparent
sproof is transparent and all issued documents are publicly verifiable. The history of all digitally signed documents is visible to everyone in order to prevent fraud.
sproof allows you to issue important documents or register data in industrial applications with an unique signature and a timestamp. A verifier can easily check the integrity and authenticity of that data without the need of a single trusted third party.
Team
Clemens Brunner, MSc
Clemens Brunner is a PhD student at the Computer Sciences Department at University of Salzburg since 2018 and a researcher at the Center for Secure Energy Informatics at Salzburg University of Applied Sciences since 2018. He received the Master’s degree in 2017 from University of Innsbruck. His current research interest is on decentralized trust management systems and privacy preserving authentication.
Dr. Fabian Knirsch
Fabian Knirsch a researcher at the Center for Secure Energy Informatics at Salzburg University of Applied Sciences and co-founder of cappatec. He received his PhD in Computer Sciences in 2018 from the University of Salzburg. His research interest is currently on security and privacy and privacy enhancing technologies in the smart grid user domain.
Erich Höpoldseder
Erich Höpoldseder has successfully implemented innovations and business development processes in various markets for international companies for more than 25 years. He has excellent management, technical, sales and social skills and has filed several patents. He supports products that improve the quality of life of people and contribute to greater safety.
Membership and Partners
sproof is an Austrian-based technology company.
Blog Posts
sproof in the News
A recent newspaper article about sproof highlights the demand for a decentralized secure digital document management. The newspaper published by the Austrian Chamber of Commerce further shows the importance of intensive cooperation between the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences and starup companies, where sproof is a proud member of the FH Salzburg Startup Center. Read […]
Startup Salzburg Factory Member
sproof is a proud member of the Startup Salzburg Factory 2019. Together with other selected startups and industry experts we develope our business. Read the full article here (in German)
Sallinger S&B Award Top 10
sproof is proud to announce that we are among the top 10 finalist projects at this year’s Sallinger S&B Award. The award is dedicated to the promotion of groundbreaking projects that enter the market following years of research. sproof’s approach for digital and secure document management and the revolutionary decentralized digital signature scheme is among […]
Swiss Blockchain Winter School
Clemens Brunner was attending the Swiss Blockchain Winter School in Interlaken. Together with researchers from the Security and Privacy Lab of the University of Innsbruck he is attending keynotes and lectures on innovative blockchain work by renowned academic researchers and industrial practitioners.The Winter School aims to bring together students, academic researchers, industry professionals, and government […]