Daniel B http://blog.lib.umn.edu/beave033/beave033/ en Copyright 2009 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:10:52 -0600 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.25 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Digital signing This is in response to the NY Times article about archiving and crypto hashes:

The article presents this as being “new� technology, when in fact it is very mature technology. Hashing is a wonderful tool for digital signing. It is in extensive use by many software distributors as a sure-fire way of verifying that a piece of software is not corrupt or tampered with. As a core technology, hashes and crypto are bulletproof. The trouble lies in the implementation.

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