[liberationtech] Trsst: An Open and Secure Alternative to Twitter

Michael Rogers michael at briarproject.org
Mon Aug 19 02:30:29 PDT 2013


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On 19/08/13 07:33, Ben Laurie wrote:
> Merkle trees (a la Certificate Transparency) are more efficient
> than chains. Also, if you did that, you could have a global log,
> and so prove against censorship of an entire blog.

I wonder if Twitter would be interested in publishing something like
this. Then if they were forced to censor a tweet in one jurisdiction
but not another, a third party could reassemble the uncensored stream
of tweets and use Twitter's signed hash tree to prove its authenticity.

Cheers,
Michael


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