Author: FT2.wiki

Description:
Can mediawiki store together with the hash of the recipient, a hash of the body text of an email with white space removed (if over some minimum number of characters)?

Rationale - while this would be effectively impossible to reverse back to text (and therefore preserves privacy of email content), it means that a sender or recipient claims in a harassment case can prove their account of the message sent or received is accurate and the text cited has not been tampered, because it can be hashed back to the same digest.

This is computationally trivial, has no impact on privacy (minimum number of characters), and could be extremely useful in serious cases of dispute, harassment, solicitation, sexual solicitation, grossly untoward suggestion, etc, if one party claims the email text was as submitted and the other party asserts it has been tampered with and is falsified.

Basically without breaching privacy, it would allow a sender or recipient to prove to WMF if needed that the actual content of an email is as claimed, or had been amended.

It's unlikely to be needed much, but when it is, it's likely to be a serious case and something that's valuable to have in place. By nature it does not appear to risk privacy otherwise, because the hash could not be used to verify a text without WMF help and cannot be converted back to text by WMF or any person. It would purely protect the sender and recipient by allowing them to prove or disprove email content in a serious matter.

Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement