😂 One does not “simply get the sha256sum of the document.”
For most of us, that might as well have been spoken in Sumerian. I know I have no clue about where to even start—but then again, I’m not a code monkey.
Here’s an oldie but a goodie: email the link to what you posted to yourself. The email time stamp should suffice for most purposes, and it’s much easier for more people to use.
Back in my day, we mailed ourselves important stuff like that via USPS, using the post mark for the same purpose.
I've done both of the above, but in today's world neither is sufficient for proof. The email timestamp especially is ridiculously easy to fake.
But I agree, unless you're comfortable on the Unix command line or a Python prompt, you probably don't know how to sha256sum a file. I've been a code monkey for most of my 68 years on this planet.
😂 One does not “simply get the sha256sum of the document.”
For most of us, that might as well have been spoken in Sumerian. I know I have no clue about where to even start—but then again, I’m not a code monkey.
Here’s an oldie but a goodie: email the link to what you posted to yourself. The email time stamp should suffice for most purposes, and it’s much easier for more people to use.
Back in my day, we mailed ourselves important stuff like that via USPS, using the post mark for the same purpose.
I've done both of the above, but in today's world neither is sufficient for proof. The email timestamp especially is ridiculously easy to fake.
But I agree, unless you're comfortable on the Unix command line or a Python prompt, you probably don't know how to sha256sum a file. I've been a code monkey for most of my 68 years on this planet.