All aspects of the Codel service have been designed to afford the maximum legal status to data that is protected by the Codel system. Codel developed and patented the world's first verifiable immutable audit trail supported by audit trails published in widely distributed journals of record such as newspapers and disributed ledgers. Codel has been publishing in the Financial Times and publishing its own ledger since 2006, and provides the most simple to use, widely available, longest running and most trustworthy service of any data immutability provider