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by Apps4Life 2113 days ago
AnoProof allows the reader to verify that two messages were written by the same anonymous author.

AnoProof allows the anonymous author to prove their identity in relation to a previous writing.

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AnoProof works by appending a signature based on a hash of your message, to your message itself, signed by a secret key, with the public key encoded into the signature itself. This utilizes SHA256, Elliptic Curve asymmetric cryptography (ED25519), and a custom base-256 encoding scheme to ensure that signatures fit within half a tweet. This whole message, for example, was signed with AnoProof

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