gpg for anonymous users - Alternative to the web of trust?

[adrelanos]

Johnicholas Hines:
> The question is how to distinguish yourself from a nation-state's covert
> agency purporting to be an individual interested in anonymity; you need to
> do something that the agency would find difficult to do.

I don't think that's possible at all.

> Getting your name and key into difficult-to-corrupt archives will start a
> timer - eventually you can point to the archives as evidence that you are
> not a newcomer. Even an agency would find it difficult to change history.

What are difficult-to-corrupt archives?

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