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You wouldn't need to sign the commits, you just need to give the latest hash to a trusted (by the authorities) third party, and that will validate the existence
by tomjen3 6y ago
You wouldn't need to sign the commits, you just need to give the latest hash to a trusted (by the authorities) third party, and that will validate the existence of all history up to that point at that time, so ideally at the end of each day, you give your SHA-1 HEAD to the authority.
This is basically what the block chain does, except that instead of having somebody designated as special and trusted, they have the signers perform proof of work.
- lhoff 6y agoI remember that i read about a lawsuite were someone tweeted the hash of a document and proofed that way that this documenta existed at that point. I believe it was about a patent infringment and they even brought a twitter employee in as a witness to testify aboht the imutability of tweeta and the timestamp. Cant find the article (hash is not a good search phrase when it comes to Findung an article about twitter).