AW: Plagiarism

[Huels, Ralf SCORE]

> I vaguely recall mention of an escrow service on the 'net some time ago;
> one would email one's document to them and they would keep the copy with
> their timestamp and record of identification, so that when asked to prove
an
> origination date one could point to them and use their stamping.  You
might
> try a search for copyright, escrow, holding, plagiarism, and the like.

http://www.itconsult.co.uk/stamper.htm do timestamping using PGP.
I have no idea if that kind of thing would hold in a court.

And there is Lutz Donnerhacke's "Ewiges Logfile":
http://www.iks-jena.de/mitarb/lutz/logfile/

Searching for the URL for the latter on Google, I also found this:
http://saturn.tcs.hut.fi/~helger/crypto/link/timestamping/

HTH.
Tschuess,
Ralf