le all content verification and any modified content will be considered valid. This combination is however useful if one merely wishes to write the content to <i>out</i> and its validity is not considered important.</p>

<p>Chain verification should arguably be performed using the signing time rather than the current time. However, since the signing time is supplied by the signer it cannot be trusted without additional evidence (such as a trusted timestamp).</p>

<h1 id="RETURN-VALUES">RETURN VALUES</h1>

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