[hoosiermama]

Could those dead me. Keys be from the young DNC worker who was murdered this summer. Who Assunge hinted leaked the DNC emails ?

[FamiliarFace]

You mean Seth Rich. RIP.

[STARLIT]

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Wikileaks just posted what appears to be a hash what does it mean? "pre-commitment 1: John Kerry 4bb96075acadc3d80b5ac872874c3037a386f4f595fe99e687439

To clear up some confusion: Wikileaks is tweeting out hashes. They're not passwords to unlock a file, but a digital fingerprint to prove it's authenticity. This is likely prep for future releases. Wikileaks will release files related to John Kerry, Ecuador, and the FCO. You can compare the hash of the file that you downloaded with the one in the tweet. If it doesn't match, you know that your file is not authentic and was tampered. Hashes are useful for any downloads, particularly sensitive ones that Wikileaks releases.

I've been telling people, if even 1 character is different in the entire archive file...the entire hash will be different. Excellent!

As time goes on the current algorithms get weaker. MD5 is no longer considered secure, but not long ago it was "unbreakable". Currently, your desktop computer can generate MD5 collisions - files that are different but have he same hash. It's important to not only understand what a hash is but to be current too. Hopefully the people releasing files use current hashing alogos.

This hash on twitter is SHA256 but I mention MD5 because it was very very popular and ubiquitous not long ago.

My next post will give you where to go and read because it's quite interesting.