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shminux comments on Self-verification - Less Wrong Discussion

6 Post author: Nanashi 19 April 2015 11:36PM

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Comment author: shminux 19 April 2015 11:47:26PM *  6 points [-]

Retrievably swallow the key and salt you used to sign the message :)

Comment author: Nanashi 20 April 2015 12:27:05AM 1 point [-]

I edited the post because I forgot to include a key constraint to the problem, which is that an attacker can/will be trying to send you false information from "yourself" so you need a way to distinguish. In this case it's relevant because an attacker could create a false message and force you to swallow the key to that message right before your memories were wiped.