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Signing Doesn’t Always Claim Authorship

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Maintainer: Daniel Hardman · 2026-02-07 · checked 2026-10-15

A short 2026 analysis by Daniel Hardman questioning the assumption, common in decentralized identity, that a digital signature claims authorship. It gives everyday counterexamples, sets out what a digital signature does and does not prove, and draws a practical lesson for specifications and verifiers.

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