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What's the kings, wizards postscript about?
by lifeisstillgood 4y ago
What's the kings, wizards postscript about?
- garblegarble 4y agoThey're scores from sports matches on that day, to show the statement was not signed prior to the listed date
- upofadown 4y agoWhat is the specific attack addressed here? A secret cache of canaries generated before the destruction of the secret key material? If we can't trust rsync.net to not do that then how can we trust them to actually stop producing canaries after the gag order? Is it something to do with how they are produced?
- to11mtm 4y ago> What is the specific attack addressed here? A secret cache of canaries generated before the destruction of the secret key material? It is to prevent 'pregenerated' message. Also increases the entropy of the message vs just a simple date change. > If we can't trust rsync.net to not do that then how can we trust them to actually stop producing canaries after the gag order? Elsewhere in thread it was discussed that, legally compelling someone NOT TO say something is somewhat easier than compelling them TO say something. As an interesting theory, if they were somehow 'compelled' by a court order to say they were OK for X weeks, they could just pregen the next X weeks without headlines, which would possibly be another way for the canary to squawk.
- rst 4y agoHeadlines from the date of the canary; including them demonstrates that the canary was produced and signed on or after the date indicated, not before. See "notes" at the bottom.
- Y_Y 4y agoI wonder if they have a contingency for when a global health emergency stops all professional sports matches.
- adamckay 4y agoThere's three news headlines for the day to also demonstrate the message was written and signed on the declared day.
- Hackbraten 4y agoThey could state just that fact, which still serves to prove the point.
- Y_Y 4y agoBut that's something you could prepare now, or if you need specifics then at the start of the new plague. Then subsequent releases won't be proven to have been created within the prior week.
- pc86 4y agoThen they just post something else to make it obvious. I mean seriously, come on. Just because you can come up with an incredibly specific and unlikely scenario in which this exact thing wouldn't work doesn't mean anything. They just stop doing that exact thing.
- stetrain 4y agoDo you have an example of other information that could be included to validate that the message was not generated and signed in advance?
- lalopalota 4y agoAny other current events headline from major news sources. Closing stock price of multiple stocks. This week's powerball numbers. Count of babies born in several hospitals on a specific day.