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The issuer changed. The chain didn’t.

That’s the Sign version. Old authority, still hanging around production.

Because old issuer state does not politely disappear just because, org finally admitted someone shouldn’t be signing anymore. The attestation is still there. Issuer still there. Signature still there. SignScan still happy to surface whole thing like nothing awkward happened after.

Fine. Keep the history.

The problem is it keeps showing up to work.

On Sign, an attestation can still resolve cleanly against an issuer state that made sense when it was written and already feels wrong when somebody relies on it later. Same schema. Same signed fields. Same attestation path. Different institution for all practical purposes. Usually different risk tolerance too once a real file is sitting in review and nobody wants their name attached to the old issuer.

Very neat. Still resolves. Still wrong in exactly the place that matters later.

The old issuer never really leaves the usable surface. Not from the record. Not from the chain. So a relying check later pulls the object, sees a valid statement, sees an issuer that was legitimate when the claim was made, keeps moving a payment release, a partner approval, an eligibility gate, whatever routine thing was supposed to stay routine that week.

Meanwhile inside the org? That old name is already radioactive.

Not fraud.

Not broken cryptography.

Worse.

History still clearing current work.

So review asks if institution still stands behind it. Ops points at the record. Partner says the issuer on file is not the issuer they were told to trust now. Somebody adds a side confirmation offchain because nobody wants t reopen attestation logic just to deal with one old authority still hanging around production.

Temporary. Sure.

Then the side confirmation starts deciding what the record no longer settles.

And the old issuer is still right there on Sign. Clean. Visible. Resolvable. Still getting dragged through a workflow that already decided it was done with that signer.