diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4e9c182..838b7a9 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -175,6 +175,33 @@ The mediator delivers the inner JWE to the VTA. Replies travel back
 via the wallet's mediator inbox, decrypted by `Pickup3Dispatcher`,
 and demuxed by `thid` to the waiting Promise.
 
+### Mediator CORS (browser requirement)
+
+The wallet runs **in the browser**, so the mediator's WebSocket
+(`wss://…/ws`) and REST (`/inbound`, `/authenticate`, …) endpoints must
+allow the **origin the wallet page is served from** — either by echoing
+that exact origin in `Access-Control-Allow-Origin`, or with `*`. This is
+a mediator-side configuration; the wallet cannot work around it.
+
+Symptom of a missing/incorrect CORS allow-list: the REST auth handshake
+succeeds (or appears to), but opening the live-delivery socket fails with
+
+```
+mediator-transport: WebSocket failed to open (close code 1006)
+```
+
+A browser rejects a cross-origin WebSocket upgrade *before* the socket
+opens, which surfaces as an abnormal **1006** close with no HTTP status —
+indistinguishable, from the client side, from a refused upgrade or a
+proxy that strips the `Upgrade` header. If REST auth works from the same
+page but the WS gives 1006, **check the mediator's CORS allow-list for
+your wallet origin first.**
+
+For a self-hosted `affinidi-messaging-mediator`, set the allowed origins
+in its config (e.g. `cors_allow_origin`) to include your wallet's origin
+(`http://localhost:5173` in dev, your extension/PWA origin in prod), or
+`*` for a permissive dev setup. Restart the mediator after changing it.
+
 ## End-to-end validation
 
 Six smokes cover the main DIDComm + wallet links. Run from a browser
diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index 9bf7248..0d0c304 100644
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {
   "name": "pnm-browser-plugin",
-  "version": "0.1.0",
+  "version": "0.1.1",
   "lockfileVersion": 3,
   "requires": true,
   "packages": {
     "": {
       "name": "pnm-browser-plugin",
-      "version": "0.1.0",
+      "version": "0.1.1",
       "workspaces": [
         "packages/core",
         "packages/pwa",
@@ -6980,7 +6980,7 @@
     },
     "packages/core": {
       "name": "@openvtc/pnm-core",
-      "version": "0.1.0",
+      "version": "0.1.1",
       "license": "Apache-2.0",
       "dependencies": {
         "@hpke/chacha20poly1305": "^1.8.0",
@@ -7003,7 +7003,7 @@
     },
     "packages/extension": {
       "name": "@openvtc/pnm-extension",
-      "version": "0.1.0",
+      "version": "0.1.1",
       "dependencies": {
         "@openvtc/pnm-core": "^0.1.0",
         "react": "^19.0.0",
@@ -7023,7 +7023,7 @@
     },
     "packages/pwa": {
       "name": "@openvtc/pnm-pwa",
-      "version": "0.1.0",
+      "version": "0.1.1",
       "dependencies": {
         "@openvtc/pnm-core": "^0.1.0",
         "@tanstack/react-query": "^5.62.0",
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index e58a554..fc0dc53 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "pnm-browser-plugin",
   "private": true,
-  "version": "0.1.0",
+  "version": "0.1.1",
   "description": "Browser-side bridge between WebAuthn passkeys and VTA-managed DIDs. Ships as a PWA and as an MV3 browser extension on a shared TypeScript core.",
   "type": "module",
   "workspaces": [
diff --git a/packages/core/package.json b/packages/core/package.json
index 64eab53..3072d14 100644
--- a/packages/core/package.json
+++ b/packages/core/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@openvtc/pnm-core",
-  "version": "0.1.0",
+  "version": "0.1.1",
   "description": "Browser-side bridge between WebAuthn passkeys and VTA-managed DIDs. Wire types, WebAuthn ceremony helpers, COSE→Multikey conversion, DID verificationMethod builder, REST + DIDComm transports, mediator client, SIOP / RP-login / provision-integration flows.",
   "license": "Apache-2.0",
   "repository": {
diff --git a/packages/core/src/trust-tasks/sign.ts b/packages/core/src/trust-tasks/sign.ts
index 5f89b1f..af1d5cf 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/trust-tasks/sign.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/trust-tasks/sign.ts
@@ -31,8 +31,27 @@ export interface SignTrustTaskOptions {
    *  attesting to a separate claim — e.g. a VP-framed bootstrap request
    *  (the provision-integration flow) or a SIOP-shaped self-attestation. */
   proofPurpose?: "assertionMethod" | "authentication";
+  /** Milliseconds to back-date the proof's `created` timestamp, absorbing
+   *  clock skew between this wallet and the verifier.
+   *
+   *  VC Data-Integrity verifiers (the Rust `eddsa-jcs-2022` spec-conformance
+   *  check on the VTA included) reject any proof whose `created` is in the
+   *  verifier's future, with **no** skew tolerance. If the wallet's clock
+   *  runs even slightly ahead of the verifier, an honest `created = now`
+   *  fails with "Created date is in the future". Back-dating by a small
+   *  margin keeps `created <= verifier_now` across normal NTP skew.
+   *
+   *  Default 60_000 (60s). The timestamp is still UTC (`toISOString()`);
+   *  this only shifts it earlier. Gross skew (clock minutes/hours off) is
+   *  an environment problem a margin can't fix — keep the host on NTP. */
+  clockSkewMs?: number;
 }
 
+/** Default back-date applied to a DI proof's `created`. Comfortably inside
+ *  the ±5min skew window the VTA already allows on `validUntil`, so it can't
+ *  push `created` outside any window the verifier accepts. */
+const DEFAULT_CLOCK_SKEW_MS = 60_000;
+
 /**
  * Attach an `eddsa-jcs-2022` Data Integrity proof to a Trust-Task envelope
  * and return the same envelope. The signed input is the concatenation of
@@ -43,12 +62,16 @@ export async function signTrustTask({
   envelope,
   signing,
   proofPurpose = "assertionMethod",
+  clockSkewMs = DEFAULT_CLOCK_SKEW_MS,
 }: SignTrustTaskOptions): Promise<TrustTaskEnvelope> {
   const proofConfig: Record<string, unknown> = {
     type: "DataIntegrityProof",
     cryptosuite: "eddsa-jcs-2022",
     verificationMethod: signing.kid,
-    created: new Date().toISOString(),
+    // UTC, back-dated by `clockSkewMs` so a wallet clock running slightly
+    // ahead of the verifier doesn't trip the "Created date is in the
+    // future" spec-conformance rejection. See `clockSkewMs` docs above.
+    created: new Date(Date.now() - clockSkewMs).toISOString(),
     proofPurpose,
   };
 
diff --git a/packages/core/tests/provision.request.mjs b/packages/core/tests/provision.request.mjs
index 4534c1c..dd12d0d 100644
--- a/packages/core/tests/provision.request.mjs
+++ b/packages/core/tests/provision.request.mjs
@@ -176,3 +176,25 @@ test("buildBootstrapRequest: validity window matches default", async () => {
   assert.ok(validUntil >= before + 14 * 60_000);
   assert.ok(validUntil <= after + 16 * 60_000);
 });
+
+test("buildBootstrapRequest: proof.created is UTC and back-dated (never in the verifier's future)", async () => {
+  // Guards the clock-skew fix: a wallet clock running slightly ahead of the
+  // VTA must not produce a `created` the VC-DI spec-conformance check rejects
+  // as "Created date is in the future". We back-date by ~60s.
+  const before = Date.now();
+  const { vp } = await buildBootstrapRequest({
+    ephemeral: generateSigningIdentity(),
+    ask: { type: "AdminRotation", adminTemplate: { name: "vta-admin" } },
+  });
+  const created = vp.proof.created;
+
+  // UTC, ISO-8601, `Z`-suffixed (toISOString contract).
+  assert.match(created, /^\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}T\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}(\.\d{3})?Z$/);
+
+  const createdMs = Date.parse(created);
+  // Strictly in the past relative to when we called: a same-instant clock
+  // (let alone one behind ours) sees `created` <= its now.
+  assert.ok(createdMs < before, `created (${created}) must be back-dated below call time`);
+  // …but only modestly (the margin), not wildly historical.
+  assert.ok(before - createdMs <= 5 * 60_000, "back-date stays within a sane skew window");
+});
diff --git a/packages/extension/package.json b/packages/extension/package.json
index c05ba41..be1d6da 100644
--- a/packages/extension/package.json
+++ b/packages/extension/package.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "@openvtc/pnm-extension",
   "private": true,
-  "version": "0.1.0",
+  "version": "0.1.1",
   "description": "Manifest v3 browser extension shell sharing @openvtc/pnm-core.",
   "type": "module",
   "scripts": {
diff --git a/packages/pwa/package.json b/packages/pwa/package.json
index 2fa7275..96dbd4d 100644
--- a/packages/pwa/package.json
+++ b/packages/pwa/package.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "@openvtc/pnm-pwa",
   "private": true,
-  "version": "0.1.0",
+  "version": "0.1.1",
   "description": "PWA shell for pnm-browser-plugin — operator-facing wallet UI.",
   "type": "module",
   "scripts": {