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by Patrick McKenzie
There exists an idiom called “dropping a hash” which is widely understood in the security community and not widely understood elsewhere. Somewhat surprisingly, there does not appear to be a canonical explanation. I have dropped hashes before and wrote this up to explain the significance of it to non-specialists.
An explanation of using cryptographic hashes to establish when a document existed and where it came from.
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Duration
~6 minutes (5K characters)
Release date
Apr 21, 2020