Quote from: YarkoL on December 10, 2015, 09:36:42 AM

Quote from: Preclus on December 09, 2015, 03:36:10 PM

Craig was building PGP from source himself at the time. It would have included any new/experimental versions of the cipher suites. At the time, he was working with encryption. Go check his Usenet posts.

Supposing you were right, You don't find it odd that he generated...

I had not looked at the GnuPG source when I wrote that comment. I knew he was building from source. When I looked at the source back in time and the spec, it was clear the hashes were not experimental, they were part of the standard hashes. If you want to see the hashes Mr. Wright generated himself, under his own name, they are littered around the web with date stamps that can't be modified.

I am taking the information in context. I have seen his blog post referencing bitcoin from Jan 2009. It has no evidence of being backdated as I am looking at the version stored in the web archives when the page was crawled in prior years. His blog post from Jan 2009 specifically references the beta of bitcoin "going live tomorrow" and "Some good coders on this. The paper rocks.".

The archive of the "bitcoin launch" post has been removed from the normal places on the web as attempts have been made to delete it.

But a little work digs them up with dates.

The "bitcoin launch" post dates from Jan 2009. It was subsequently modified/removed in 2015. Mr. Wright did not state he was even involved in that project in the post. It just shows that he knew of bitcoin before it launched.

The post was crawled in 2014 and there is evidence of it being there in 2013. If you want to see them yourself, go ahead. Here is the archived post from "2 Jun 2014 02:28:10 UTC"

http://archive.is/oe1fh

If you don't believe that is the date (as the dates presented in the top are a bit confusing), this should clear it up:

http://archive.is/http://gse-compliance.blogspot.com.au/2009_01_04_archive.html

The post is near the bottom with the version archived from 2 June 2014 and the version that was updated in 3 Oct 2015 where he removed the "bitcoin launch" section.

Additionally, look at this page and search for "bitcoin"

https://archive.is/offset=2060/gse-compliance.blogspot.com.au

You will find:

original 17 Oct 2013 08:55:10 from
http://gse-compliance.blogspot.com.au/2009/01/bitcoin.html

which says a page was found by the crawler on his blog with a publish date of Jan 2009 and with the page name of "bitcoin.html". That link was archived by the crawler on 17 Oct 2013

Now, in 2013, did Mr. Wright go create a page called bitcoin.html and add it to his Jan 2009 blog entries? The number of entries did not change.

If the "bitcoin launch" page existed in Jan 2009, would you still say he faked it? Or would you say "it still doesn't say he was involved in the creation of it".

That blog has now been completely removed.