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		blueflow on May 9, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I'm a fucking webmaster (2016) What you are describing is a signature, and i use gpg --sign for that.

legutierr on May 9, 2022 [–]

A digital signature can validate that data has been added by an authorized participant, but it cannot tell you if data has been deleted.

blueflow on May 10, 2022 | [–]

It can, if you sign a hash of the previous node(s) with the contents of the new message. git with signed commits is like this.

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