ping - Karl

[Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many]

On 2/19/22, Stefan Claas <stefan at ctemplar.com> wrote:
> The reason why I did it this way with a certificate:
>
> To have a *proof* of ownership and option that it
> is me who did that and the blockchain helps to
> undermine that, because at the timestamping service
> I am registered and log in there via Gmail.
>
> My pub key in the certified document is stored
> on a YubiKey for additional security and can be
> uses with rage, the Rust version of age, because
> age currently does not have this option.
>
> Two other things about my certificate.
>
> The identicon graphic represents a visual representation
> of my public key ASCII string and the QR-Code contains
> a Hashcash token, created from my pub key and De-Mail
> adress.
>
> Regards
> Stefan

It is so wonderful you did these things. But what is the point of the
putting timestamps on the blockchain in a way that can be forged
on-chain manually?