[WikiEN-l] Jayjg: Abusing CheckUser for political ends?

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On 6/19/07, Risker <risker.wp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ah, thank you.  So at any time someone, say a checkuser, could have asked
> her to provide confirmation...
>
> R.
>
>
> On 6/19/07, Steve Summit <scs at eskimo.com> wrote:
> >
> > Risker rote:
> > > Just out of curiosity, can someone explain to me the "committed
> > identity"
> > > that CharlotteWebb has on her userpage?  Would this be something that
> > should
> > > be taken into consideration, or is it just to prevent account
> hijacking?
> >
> > See [[Commitment scheme]].  It means that at some later date,
> > she can reveal her true identity, and in such a way that we know
> > it's been her true identity all along, and not (say) the identity
> > of some imposter who hijacked her account at some point.
> >
> > What she's done is prepare a statement, such as
> >
> >        I, Cherie Wilcox, dob 1/23/45, of 123 Main St.,
> >        Busytown, USA, am Wikipedia User:CharlotteWebb.
> >
> > Then she's taken the SHA-512 hash of that statement, resulting in
> > the number 2bc40c120f424e1a6f5ef1f38ca718580900698db318f1ceeda555
> > f7613ee4251e90accbe33b741ed8984982f37a040e951e35a8573d4a68b01b63c
> > 19ad7e548.  If she ever releases the statement, any of us can
> > verify that it has (and has always had) this hash.  Until she
> > releases it, no one can come up with any other statement which
> > has the same hash, or predict what hers says.
> >

Well, confirmation that her account had not been commandeered.