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FWIW, I made a post on HN pointing out that at least some of the claimed hunter emails were cryptographically verifiable using DKIM (e.g. that at least google h
by nullc 5y ago
FWIW, I made a post on HN pointing out that at least some of the claimed hunter emails were cryptographically verifiable using DKIM (e.g. that at least google had attested to them being faithful) and the post was immediately flagged.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24950026 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24950026
I don't have any real opinions about the hunter biden emails, rather I think that DKIM is an interesting and relevant danger to your privacy because it creates a non-repudiation vector that few expect to exist.
Unfortunately, it seems that too often political partisans are unwilling to tolerate the distribution of facts that might support their opponents narratives.
- rubatuga 5y agoYou know, hacker news is an important enough site that your post may have been flagged by Biden’s campaign team
- nullc 5y agoA simpler explanation is that it was just flagged by a mixture of highly partisan readers and readers who are just tired of any politics-involved drama. Conspiracies make for great narratives, and they do sometimes happen but far more often bad calls are made for really boring reasons.
- the_only_law 5y agoYou flatter yourself too much.
- rootsudo 5y agoThe same can be said about using SSL/HTTPS to access websites. People say it's secure because no one can intercept, but at the same time it verifies you are the one who did that at that time. Also, heartbleed.
- 3np 5y agoHow? I see with DKIM there is a clear tie to the owner embedded in the signature, but what identifying info can you get from an HTTPS request?
- Ms-J 5y agoI've heard this before as well and have even seen some darknet sites not using HTTPS due to trust issues.
- denton-scratch 5y agoI guess the OP must have been thinking of client certificates, which are as rare as rocking-horse shit.
- maccolgan 5y agoYou can cryptographically prove that the server signed this payload with a valid certificate, I'm not sure if there's tools to do that but that's a possibility...
- pigeons 5y agohttps://tlsnotary.org/ https://tlsnotary.org/
- 1cvmask 5y agoThis was the github on the emails: https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/hunter-dkim// https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/hunter-dkim//