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Re:Google Fiber Was Doomed from the Start by kough on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @06:46PM (#13880612)
> 6d11e0a226cb3b6b24dc05bd96ebb7b176c29b587512fae370d5c825ff5a08bf742152134a1e75c9104b8944fbae2b4640757e2533b41f44ceefbb04be602103

I'll bite, what's this? Couldn't b64 decode it.

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.