> UPDATE: Before people ask the potential question how the researchers are supposed to get their proper credit - my consideration is the following: Each of the

> UPDATE: Before people ask the potential question how the researchers are supposed to get their proper credit - my consideration is the following: Each of the researchers signs the paper with their own "public" key of a public-private key pair. This signature is uploaded as part of the paper upload. The "public" key is nevertheless kept secret by the researchers. > When the legal risk is over and the researchers want to disclose their contribution, they simply make their "public" key really public. This way, anyboy can change that the signature that was uploaded from beginning on, indeed belong to this public key and thus to the respective researcher. Commonly-used public key signature systems (RSA, ECDSA) do not provide the security properties necessary for this. Someone else who wants to claim credit for the research could cook up their own key pair that successfully validates the message and signature. This is called a duplicate signature key selection attack (https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/duplicate_signature_key_selection_attack_in_lets_encrypt https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/duplicate_signature_key_sele...)