How to trust the time?

September 13, 2010 5:14 AM

What's the best solution out there (free is good, easy is good) to securely time stamp blog entries through a trusted 3rd party?
posted by it must be bunnies to Computers & Internet (4 answers total)

I have never heard of such a thing. Why do you need/want to do this?
posted by beerbajay at 5:25 AM on September 13, 2010

Best answer: Registered Commons is the closest thing I can think of.
posted by devnull at 5:51 AM on September 13, 2010

This is more of an after-the-fact solution, but I've used the Internet Archive to determine roughly when information appeared in or disappeared from a web page, including some of my own. It's free and automatic, but it takes at least six months for a page to get into it, and they have not yet indexed most pages from the last two years.
posted by Ery at 6:10 AM on September 13, 2010

Best answer: The 'external links' section of the wikipedia article on trusted timestamping lists about a dozen service providers, many of which are free.
posted by Rhomboid at 7:00 AM on September 13, 2010 [1 favorite]