<div dir="ltr">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.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 11:30 AM, Iznogoud <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:iznogoud@nobelware.com" target="_blank">iznogoud@nobelware.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">><br>
> Has the Internet Archive, <a href="https://archive.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://archive.org/</a> take a copy of the<br>
> sites?<br>
><br>
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</span>In the same spirit as this, have you considered some non-traditional and less<br>
essoteric methods? For instance, start a window or screen recording of a VM<br>
that is browing the site, and act as if the subject/user visiting the site.<br>
Then, upload the video to youtube in a private link. Or, take the file and<br>
PGP/GPG encrypt it, sign it and extract either a hash or a fingerprint and<br>
send that to an email account held by a third party, say Gmail.<br>
<br>
I believe that if you ever get into littigation against anyone, it would be<br>
best to have your evidence held by a third party. And by evidence we must<br>
include the timestamp, which seems to be a key piece of information. In both<br>
cases I mentioned a third party holds that; in the former it is the youtube<br>
upload date and in the latter the received date of the email held by gmail.<br>
You can involve a fourth party, like a Yahoo account, if needed.<br>
<br>
This can all be done with the help of an attorney acting as a leagal third<br>
party, but it will not be as free as an email with the fingerprint.<br>
<br>
I use the second method all the time for scanned hand-written documents and<br>
other such items.<br>
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