Auditing of Electronic Documents

A memory device storing instructions that when executed facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising, comprising:

• receiving an audit file for an audit associated with an electronic document;
• retrieving a cryptographic audit key from the audit file;
• retrieving an interval of time from the audit file;
• retrieving an electronic data representing the electronic document;
• invoking a timer associated with the audit, the timer incrementing from an initial time to a final time determined by the interval of time retrieved from the audit file;
• as the timer increments to the final time, conducting the audit associated with the electronic document;
• determining an expiration of the interval of time;
• and
• in response to the determining of the expiration of the interval of time, declining a usage of the audit file to complete the audit associated with the electronic document.

A server, comprising:

• a hardware processor;
• and
• a memory device, the memory device storing instructions, the instructions when executed causing the hardware processor to perform operations, the operations comprising:
• receiving an audit file for an audit associated with an electronic document;
• retrieving a cryptographic audit key from the audit file;
• retrieving an interval of time from the audit file;
• retrieving an electronic data representing the electronic document;
• invoking a timer associated with the audit, the timer incrementing from an initial time to a final time determined by the interval of time retrieved from the audit file;
• as the timer increments to the final time, conducting the audit associated with the electronic document;
• determining an expiration of the interval of time;
• and
• in response to the expiration of the interval of time, declining a usage of the audit file to complete the audit associated with the electronic document.