List Archival

[Stefan Claas]

Hi Karl,

On Sun, Oct 24, 2021 at 2:46 PM Karl <gmkarl at gmail.com> wrote:

> - archives scattered on a couple websites appear unhashed, unsigned
> and vulnerable to loss of the host

I must admit I do not understand what advantage a hashed or signed
*new* archive has, created from an old archive, which might be later
no longer available, for comparison.

Another way to create new archives may be worth exploring, is
IPFS (https://ipfs.io) in combination with a Bitcoin-based blockchain
timestamping service (opentimestamps.org), which both are available
for free.

It would simply mean, that whoever creates an archive hashes the
contained files, uses the hashsum file with the timestamping service
and then uploads the archive, hashfile, and timestamp to IPFS.

Regards
Stefan