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I've recently been thinking about a blockchain use case that I have not seen mentioned: security.

It seems like log obfuscation is a common tactic used to cover tracks after a break in. Thus it seems like a blockchain could be used in a logging system so that a falsified log would trigger an alert.

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systemd's log subsystem has been doing exactly that since 2012:

https://lwn.net/Articles/512895/

Although here's a detail i didn't know:

The algorithm for FSS is based on "Forward Secure Pseudo Random Generators" (FSPRG), which comes from some post-doctoral research by Poettering's brother Bertram.

So that's just peachy.

Hah, of course.

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