I have even heard of people taking out a classified ad in a newspaper to
publish the md5sum (or any other hashing key) in the newspaper as a way to
prove that something was created/occurred prior to the published date.

On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 11:30 AM, Iznogoud <iznogoud at nobelware.com> wrote:

> >
> > Has the Internet Archive, https://archive.org/ take a copy of the
> > sites?
> >
>
> In the same spirit as this, have you considered some non-traditional and
> less
> essoteric methods? For instance, start a window or screen recording of a VM
> that is browing the site, and act as if the subject/user visiting the site.
> Then, upload the video to youtube in a private link. Or, take the file and
> PGP/GPG encrypt it, sign it and extract either a hash or a fingerprint and
> send that to an email account held by a third party, say Gmail.
>
> I believe that if you ever get into littigation against anyone, it would be
> best to have your evidence held by a third party. And by evidence we must
> include the timestamp, which seems to be a key piece of information. In
> both
> cases I mentioned a third party holds that; in the former it is the youtube
> upload date and in the latter the received date of the email held by gmail.
> You can involve a fourth party, like a Yahoo account, if needed.
>
> This can all be done with the help of an attorney acting as a leagal third
> party, but it will not be as free as an email with the fingerprint.
>
> I use the second method all the time for scanned hand-written documents and
> other such items.
>
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