And this was the intended effect of your post you wrote a long monologue instead of a clear answer. Thus proving his point, there is no clear answer.

Any truth-holder (on both side) is a blatant liar.

I don't think you even understood the first sentence, or any other.

And rightly so, since the rest of it was a bizarre analogy comparing envelopes to cryptographic hashes that ultimately served no discernible purpose

Don't buy it then. Problem solved.