Person

Stuart Haber

Stuart Haber co-developed cryptographic methods for time-stamping digital documents so later changes could be detected.

Period
1991
Known for
Cryptographic document time-stamping
Historical contribution

What Haber contributed

With W. Scott Stornetta, he described systems that link document hashes and trusted publication to establish an ordered, tamper-evident history.

Why it mattered

The work became an important ancestor of digital provenance systems and later blockchain designs.

Connected topics

Where this fits in ITEM

Evidence

Sources and further reading

  1. How to Time-Stamp a Digital Document

    Stuart Haber, W. Scott Stornetta · 1991

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