Re:Google Fiber Was Doomed from the Start
by afarrell on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @06:55PM
(#13880681)
I would guess it is something signed with a private key so that the author of the throwaway comment can later prove they wrote it.
Seems a bit short though.
Re:Google Fiber Was Doomed from the Start
by oconnor663 on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @07:10PM
(#13880792)
It's 128 hex characters, 64 bytes. That's exactly the size of an Ed25519 signature (https://nacl.cr.yp.to/sign.html), or just the SHA512 of anything.
Re:Google Fiber Was Doomed from the Start
by fpgaminer on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @07:06PM
(#13880764)
An uncompressed ECDSA signature is 64 bytes, which is the length of that string.
Re:Google Fiber Was Doomed from the Start
by mcpherrinm on Thursday March 16, 2017 @12:33AM
(#13882521)
It's somewhat common for people in some security circles to post hashes of messages they don't want to post publicly, but might want to refer to disclose privately or at a later date, and have some reasonable proof they didn't make it up later.
This, for example, is a throwaway account. Perhaps there's something in the message that'll let them prove they left that message at a later date, if they desire to.
I'll bite, what's this? Couldn't b64 decode it.