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> ed25519 hash Ed25519 is a public key (usually signature) system, not a hash function. You're probably thinking of either a ed25519 signature, or a (for examp

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• o8r3oFTZPE 5y ago
  s/hash/signature/ Sloppy terminology. Apologies. For example, here's the 64-bit signature for the comment above: e3b2b607891e364b0c80df9fe926a5aed125d8f4a0f2f4c58b58b87b92884e634bb614f13cad372f074158c035eb382535b6d33d9ba10d7d59843a17dee5720e Here's the 32-bit public key: bf9fae774061bb6f5deea9380ccdf11263071bc256c1bd0947572f0a3dcc3806 The blog author could allow commenters to publish their keys and signatures. If the author later publishes their comment, the reader can verify 1. it has not been edited (a hash would also suffice for this) and 2. it was signed with the commenter's published key (presumably by the commenter).
• o8r3oFTZPE 5y ago
  s/hash/signature/ Sloppy terminology. Apologies. For example, here's the 64-bit signature for the comment above: e3b2b607891e364b0c80df9fe926a5aed125d8f4a0f2f4c58b58b87b92884e634bb614f13cad372f074158c035eb382535b6d33d9ba10d7d59843a17dee5720e Here's the 32-bit public key: bf9fae774061bb6f5deea9380ccdf11263071bc256c1bd0947572f0a3dcc3806 The blog author could allow commenters to publish their keys and signatures. If the author later publishes their comment, the reader can verify 1. it has not been edited (a hash would also suffice for this) and 2. it was signed by the commenter's published key.