Testing with blockchain

Petter Reinholdtsen pere at hungry.com
Mon Feb 6 15:11:51 CET 2017


[Thomas Sødring]
> I was at a meeting last week organised by the police directorate and the
> National Archive. It was a little workshop that discussed if and how
> block chain technology was relevant for record/keeping archives.

Interesting to know they are looking at it.  I'm not conviced it is a
good match for a archive system, though.

> At the end of the meeting I volunteered to try and integrate nikita
> with a block chain technology. I will probably try to implement it
> against https://www.openchain.org/ .
>
> I don't expect this to interrupt development as I will latch onto
> events in the core and send them to a blockchain service for
> persisting related information to the blockchain.
>
> This is just FYI, as after a while you might see a branch related to
> this!

Another avenue to explore is Trusted Timestamping.  I wrote about it a
while back, check out
<URL: http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Public_Trusted_Timestamping_services_for_everyone.html >
and
<URL: http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/syslog_trusted_timestamp___chain_of_trusted_timestamps_for_your_syslog.html >.

-- 
Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen


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