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by yencabulator 406 days ago
There's been attempts to standardize a way for a HTTPS server to say "Yes, this response really did come from me", but nothing has been really adopted.

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9421.html

https://httpsig.org/

Without the server participating, best you can do is a LetsEncrypt-style "we made this request from many places and got the same response" statement by a trusted party.

Inspiration: roughtime can be used to piggyback a "proof of known hash at time" mechanism, without blockchain waste. That lets you say "I've had this file since this time".

https://www.imperialviolet.org/2016/09/19/roughtime.html

https://int08h.com/post/to-catch-a-lying-timeserver/

https://blog.cloudflare.com/roughtime/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12599705