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>>/181/
Well... not exactly. The problem is in Q's current tripcode. A normal tripcode simply takes a given input and runs a cryptographic hash on it (scrambles it in binary to end up with all kinds of weird stuff). Because this program is the same across all boards in use, the same input renders the same output. So, if I go to endchan with a normal trip and post with, say, my name, then the hash will appear the same on any board.
But, it's not a complicated tripcode and there are trip explorers that allow you to crack a tripcode. By randomizing the input to a hash and testing all possible combinations, you can generate all possible outcomes of the hash and match them to their input. Current hardware isn't quite up to the task (for the average consumer) of doing this for a full trip code - but you can, say, tell the explorer you want your trip output to include "DogLover" in it, and it will start running until it finds several tripcodes that have that string in it.
Which is why the secure tripcode was used for his current one. This one uses a salt that is only present on the 8chan servers. Basically - an extra little bit of input code to make it impossible to do the above unless you have that code. This code is unique to 8chan and won't produce the same output on other boards.
>>/1947/
Well, if 8chan actually ends up coming back online, then it will be after having side-stepped the problems of being deplatformed and will also have DDoS protection.
They can stand up their own DNS, currently, the reason they can't just do that is because it will get DDoSed instantly, and they don't have the native hardware to stand up against the zerg of chinese bot farms that exist specifically as a LOIC platform (and twitter likebots).
See above for what they will need for Q to be able to properly post with a tripcode on Endchan using the last tripcode he was using. Though, honestly, if I were CodeMonkey, I wouldn't give away that salt key after all that's happened and Q's role in things. If it was before someone like Q was posting - it would be a different thing. But now, there are going to be a lot of people looking to fill power vacuums and replace leaders, so to speak - so he will probably be rather cautious of turning that over, because in theory, it would allow whoever has it to begin cracking Q's trip. If that integrity is lost, then we have to go through the whole "Is this really Q" routine again - and if we are going to do that, we may as well just enable tripcodes of both varieties on endchan and wait for Q to validate himself there if that is how he wants to go about it. I'm ... not really sure if tripcodes can be done the same way, here, though... since you would need to have the source to run the calc... and you need to run the calc in order to prove ownership of the source. It would need to go under a different system - which could actually just be displaying UIDs - which are already cryptographic in nature. Q would just need to verify, if he wanted to post here, that he is Q and then verify that a ZID here (or UID or whatever) is him. Or... just validate himself here? I dunno - Q does Q.