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		Zamicol on Dec 20, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: This Page is Designed to Last I had no intention of bring up "blockchain", only that cryptographic hashes must play an important part of any archival scheme intended to last generations. Otherwise you must trust that an archiver hasn't changed history. Why trust when you can verify?

inimino on Dec 20, 2019 [–]

Where is someone generations hence going to get the hash from?

sjy on Dec 20, 2019 | [–]

From the link they clicked on. The article is about link rot, not search.

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