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A comment on Addressing Recent Claims of “Manipulated” Blog Posts in the Wayback Machine. Parent comment

Re:Addressing Recent Claims of “Manipulated” Blog Posts in t... by dumbfounder on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @12:44PM (#16923354)
I think you need a checksum for every page, not every day. How would you independently verify the checksum for an entire day?
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Re:Addressing Recent Claims of “Manipulated” Blog Posts in t... by rocqua on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @05:16PM (#16926248)
Merkle trees. Whomever wants to store a timestamp for some message stores the path from that message to the root of the Merkle tree. Only the root of the merkle tree of each day needs to be published.
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