3 ms·
>Problem solved Not at all. There are corrections and amendments. It isn't as complicated as in law, but still.
by ComodoHacker 6y ago
>Problem solved
Not at all. There are corrections and amendments. It isn't as complicated as in law, but still.
- sudosysgen 6y agoSigned declarations of amendment, then amended papers being added as new one with proof of amendment and link with the original. Kind of like how a keyserver deals with revoked keys.
- a1369209993 6y agoCorrections and amendments are separate (but related) documents. Preventing them from being retroactively applied to the original version of the source document is the specific thing that a archival-quality document storage is supposed to do (as opposed a non-archival-quality storage, which only needs to protect against data loss (as in turn opposed to a cache, which can rely on a backing storage)).
- ComodoHacker 6y agoLooks like you agree that an archival-quality document storage assumes a bit more than hashing papers. That was my point.
- a1369209993 6y agoIf that was your point, it was very poorly made, since you appeared to be claiming that archival-quality document storage required much more than hashing papers. Archival-quality document storage requires two things: 1, hashing papers; 2, guaranteeing that the preimages of those hashes (ie the papers) remain available despite accidental and deliberate forces toward their destruction. Non-archival-quality document storage already requires thing 2, we just want to add more nines of reliablity to those guarantees, which is a fundamentally technical endeavor that the likes of Springer/Elsevier don't particularly help with.