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

Ben Laurie ben at links.org
Mon Aug 19 03:01:50 PDT 2013


On 19 August 2013 05:30, Michael Rogers <michael at briarproject.org> wrote:

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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.
>

Nice idea. If anyone has an appropriate contact I'd be happy to help :-)


>
> Cheers,
> Michael
>
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