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How to Time-stamp a Digital Document (1991)
| Venue: | Journal of Cryptology |
| Citations: | 247 - 5 self |
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@ARTICLE{Haber91howto,
author = {Stuart Haber and W. Scott Stornetta},
title = {How to Time-stamp a Digital Document},
journal = {Journal of Cryptology},
year = {1991},
volume = {3},
pages = {99--111}
}
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Abstract
The prospect of a world in which all text, audio, picture, and video documents are in digital form on easily modifiable media raises the issue of how to certify when a document was created or last changed. The problem is to time-stamp the data, not the medium. We propose computationally practical procedures for digital time-stamping of such documents so that it is infeasible for a user either to back-date or to forward-date his document, even with the collusion of a time-stamping service. Our procedures maintain complete privacy of the documents themselves, and require no record-keeping by the time-stamping service. Appeared, with minor editorial changes, in Journal of Cryptology, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 99--111, 1991. 0 Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn, and sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right. The Rape of Lucrece, l. 941 1 Introduction ...
