# RealHandles

> RealHandles gives you a signed, portable proof that your online profiles belong to one real person. The signing key is the root of trust, the domain is one rotatable anchor, and anyone can verify a manifest without asking us.

Every documentation page is also available as raw Markdown by appending `.md` to its URL (e.g. https://docs.realhandles.com/guides/getting-started.md). A complete corpus is available at https://docs.realhandles.com/llms-full.txt.

## Guides

- [Claiming an account](https://docs.realhandles.com/guides/claiming-an-account/): Assert an account you cannot verify, and what a claim is worth to someone reading it.
- [Disavowals](https://docs.realhandles.com/guides/disavowals/): Say publicly that an account is not you, in a way anyone can check.
- [Exporting your data](https://docs.realhandles.com/guides/exporting-your-data/): Take the whole identity with you: manifest, chain, proofs, and timestamps.
- [Getting started](https://docs.realhandles.com/guides/getting-started/): Create an identity, generate a signing key, and publish your first signed manifest.
- [Recovery and rotation](https://docs.realhandles.com/guides/recovery-and-rotation/): Replace a key you still hold, and take back an identity whose key is gone.
- [Verifying an account](https://docs.realhandles.com/guides/verifying-an-account/): Prove you control an account on another platform, and what counts as a real proof.
- [Your signing key](https://docs.realhandles.com/guides/your-signing-key/): The Ed25519 key that is the root of trust, where it lives, and how to back it up.

## How it works

- [Anchoring](https://docs.realhandles.com/concepts/anchoring/): How a domain anchors an identity without ever becoming the identity.
- [Reading the history](https://docs.realhandles.com/concepts/reading-the-history/): The sigchain, the OpenTimestamps proof, and how to audit an identity end to end.
- [The signed manifest](https://docs.realhandles.com/concepts/the-signed-manifest/): The JWS document that holds the identity, and the rules a server applies before storing it.