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Hello everyone, I was setting up a Committted identity for myself using SHA-512.
I was wondering about it's effectiveness, If someone compromises your account, can't they simply delete the template from your userpage or even change the hash of it.
It even states the weakness on the template page: "An attacker with access to the account could overwrite the hash with their own one. They could then say that the previous owner of the account was an attacker who claimed their identity and generated his own hash. An attacker without access to the account could claim that the current account's owner stole their identity. The attacker could state that they did not publish a hash when they used to own the account, or that they did not register an account and that someone else is using their name."
It seems quite pointless to me to have this committed identity unless you actually have to register it with Wikipedia. Leaving a template on your userpage doesn't seem like it would work. NikolaiHo 19:48, 26 August 2016 (UTC)
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