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int08h
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int08h is a personal blog at int08h.com about programming, systems and security. Since 2017, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Scalable, Lie-Detecting Timeserving with Roughtime”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-19, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link int08h for posts on Roughtime, a protocol for verifying time servers, and on proving that a server's response is genuine. Commenters cite these posts as background for discussions of data integrity and authenticity.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Scalable, Lie-Detecting Timeserving with Roughtime2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-04-21
What Hacker News says?
I'm so sad roughtime never got popular. It can be used to piggyback a "proof of known hash at time" mechanism, without blockchain waste. 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
Comment linking /post/to-catch-a-lying-timeserver/
on “Archivists work to save disappearing data.gov datasets”Submitted Scalable, Lie-Detecting Timeserving with Roughtime as a story · 38 points
HN discussionThere'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 use…
Comment linking /post/to-catch-a-lying-timeserver/
on “Linkwarden: FOSS self-hostable bookmarking with AI-tagging and page archival”Submitted Ode to a Vyukov Queue as a story · 20 points
HN discussionSubmitted Roughtime Protocol Message Anatomy as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Future Web: Minecraft or Call-Of-Duty? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Monospace Overchoice as a story · 2 points
HN discussion