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Sidenote, but I love how the author used Twitter as a way to prove they had this information in the past. Is this a common strategy now for proving timestamps?
by pixelcort 13y ago
Sidenote, but I love how the author used Twitter as a way to prove they had this information in the past.
Is this a common strategy now for proving timestamps?
- jevinskie 13y agoIt sometimes happens in various scenes (I specifically recall PS3) where people post hashes of proof of some various hack/achievement/etc that is private for whatever reason. They want to be able to claim "first" if someone else finds the same hack later. Hashes of keys were posted for the PS3.
- Maxious 13y agoWasn't the old version of this trick sending the information in a well sealed envelope through the mail to get a dated postmark? More than 140 characters but you can only prove it once by unsealing the envelope!
- oakwhiz 13y agoYou could tweet the cryptographic hash of a piece of information longer than 140 characters to prove that it existed at a certain time.
- pizzeys 13y agoI never understood this trick. Surely you could just mail an empty envelope ahead of time for the postmark, then put whatever you wanted to prove in it later?
- scintill76 13y agoI think the idea is that you keep it sealed until it is needed, then open it in some way that creates a legally admissible proof of the contents (maybe opened by a notary or something; and examined for postmark/envelope tampering by some sort of expert in that field, who can testify his training leads him to believe it is authentic.)
- eru 13y agoBitcoin would also work. It's made for that kind of thing.