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by tuesdayrain 2571 days ago
Maybe PGP or some other form of cryptographic signing will become (more) mainstream as a result of this. Or at the very least a secret word that families can share amongst eachother to verify identities.
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Cryptographic signing just moves the problem from the authenticity of the document to the authenticity of the key.

That can be very useful when it is useful to only have establish trust once but that's not really the problem described here. The secret word is probably more useful in being so simple, however it still has to be established beforehand.