On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 01:53:58PM -0600, Sean Bowe wrote: > Hi Peter, > > I mentioned in another discussion that I wanted to announce the beacon > in advance and publish it on the mailing list, signed, so that if I > had attempted to adaptively choose amongst different beacons someone > could demonstrate it by posting both signatures. I think this is good > enough; your suggestion is interesting too! > > The timestamp is just a harmless demonstration of defense in depth. > Not including it might have suggested I couldn't; since it's cheap and > easy, why not.
I think it's important that when you do what should be harmless defence-in-depth measures, you make it clear that's what you're doing. It's very common for people to read about measures like that and come away mis-educated about what was actually accomplished, turning what should be a harmless measure into a harmful one. -- https://petertodd.org 'peter'[:-1]@petertodd.org
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