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The social norm in some communities around this is to publish a hash in a visible place to claim "In a future where I publish the file, this is proof positive I had it as of publication of the hash."
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It’s an option to authoritatively say “look, I was right” in the future if the prediction pans out, while avoiding the social consequences of stating the prediction in the present.
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So you've made some kind of prediction, that you will share later, and we can confirm you made today?
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Or he has broken SHA512.
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What if the prediction is, “I have discovered a collision attack for SHA512”? ;)
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If you figured out a way to produce two sentences of opposing meaning with the same hash we need to know that
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But why not just share it now?
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The hash preimage explains that pretty clear
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I take some comfort from the fact that twitter still exists in the future where this text file can be evidenced as verified (I think)
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Why not just publish this in base64 encoding, that way you would have said it but not said it :)
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