Trip-codes

If you need authenticity without identification ("only the real Mr Anonymous could have written this comment") there is a solution called "trip-codes", used in parts of the web. Basically, the user enters an arbitrary password which is hashed and the hash value is displayed alongside the user name. It's hard to fake, because you'd have to guess the password. However it makes no intrusive assertions about real identity.

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