Right, this is basically Binary Transparency, with the same sort of social mechanisms in place as Certificate Transparency has for dealing with misbehaving CAs.

Right, this is basically Binary Transparency, with the same sort of social mechanisms in place as Certificate Transparency has for dealing with misbehaving CAs. The idea of storing release hashes (or public keys) in a distributed, permissionless, append-only log actually makes a lot of sense, and there are several serious proposals for how to do this, such as EthIKS: http://www.jbonneau.com/doc/B16b-BITCOIN-ethiks.pdf http://www.jbonneau.com/doc/B16b-BITCOIN-ethiks.pdf and Contour: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.08427.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.08427.pdf