No. Review permissions, licenses, confidentiality, and access restrictions separately from file possession.
Include scope, inventory guidance, claim status, uncertainties, permissions, pending obligations, and the version baseline.
Where retention is appropriate, label them clearly as unverified and protect sensitive details. Do not mix them into established facts.
No. It helps check transferred bytes against a baseline, not the truth, provenance, or interpretation of the contents.
Have the recipient retrieve a source and trace a claim to its exact passage, while checking restrictions and unresolved questions.