[TriLUG] OT: crytographic timestamps

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

I'm writing some proprietary code at home in stages and will 
be submitting it remotely. It would be helpful if I could 
conveniently show the date that I submitted each stage. One 
way I can think to do this is to cryptographically timestamp 
it. This in turn needs a trusted timestamp authority (TSA). 
The only FOSS TSA project I could find with google appears 
to have died (at least from timestamps on the postings). 
There are plenty of people selling proprietary TSA hardware. 
If it comes to that, I'll just do without.

Alternately I could swipe some time sensitive material from 
an on-line news source and cryptographically encapsulate 
that in the code. This would give me a "no older than" date, 
which is not terribly useful.

I would like this to be as paperless as possible, as I may 
need to keep records for a long time (10yrs). eg I don't 
really want to go to the Post Office and collect pieces of 
paper, saying when I mailed the code.


Any ideas?

Thanks Joe

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