Anyone with half a brain or an ounce of honesty left, knows that the John Podesta emails released by Wikileaks are authentic. If they weren’t, everyone implicated in them would have immediately and aggressively denied their claims rather than simply change the subject by blurting out some incoherent nonsense about Russia and Vladimir Putin.
So while most of us were already confident in their authenticity, a key tactic of corrupt Democratic operatives has been to try to cast doubt on them being real in order to sway the minds of some of our more cerebrally challenged fellow citizens. As such, any technical proof that the emails are genuine is of great significance, and we can thank Robert Graham of Errata Security for providing this.
He first grabbed my attention on the topic a few days ago with a series of tweets:
BTW, Donna Brazile is a big fat liar. We can verify some of the Wikileaks emails, including this one pic.twitter.com/K9qDMXHyvp
— Rob Zombie Graham? (@ErrataRob) October 22, 2016
I know it’s funny, but Hillary did her own email servers well enough that we can verify, with crypto, she got debate questions in advance.
— Rob Zombie Graham? (@ErrataRob) October 22, 2016
He then expanded on his thoughts in a post published yesterday titled, Politifact: Yes we can fact check Kaine’s email.
Here’s what we learn:
This Politifact post muddles over whether the Wikileaks leaked emails have been doctored, specifically the one about Tim Kaine being picked a year ago. The post is wrong — we can verify this email and most of the rest.
In order to bloc spam, emails nowadays contain a form of digital signatures that verify their authenticity. This is automatic, it happens on most modern email systems, without users being aware of it.
This means we can indeed validate most of the Wikileaks leaked DNC/Clinton/Podesta emails. There are many ways to do this, but the easiest is to install the popular Thunderbird email app along with the DKIM Verifier addon. Then go to the Wikileaks site and download the raw source of the email https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/2986.
As you see in the screenshot below, the DKIM signature verifies as true.
If somebody doctored the email, such as changing the date, then the signature would not verify. I try this in the email below, changing the date from 2015 to 2016. This causes the signature to fail.
There are some ways to forge DKIM-signed emails, specifically if the sender uses short keys. When short keys are used, hackers can “crack” them, and sign fraudulent emails. This doesn’t apply to GMail, which uses strong 2048 bit keys, as demonstrated in the following screenshot. (No, the average person isn’t supposed to understand this screen shot, but experts can).
What this means is that the only way this email could’ve been doctored is if there has been an enormous, nation-state level hack of Google to steal their signing key. It’s possible, of course, but extraordinarily improbable. It’s conspiracy-theory level thinking. Google GMail has logs of which emails went through its systems — if there was a nation-state attack able to forge them, Google would know, and they’d be telling us. (For one thing, they’d be forcing password resets on all our accounts).
Since DKIM verifies this email and most of the others, we conclude that Kaine is “pants on fire” lying about this specific email, and “mostly untrue” in his claim that the Wikileaks emails have been doctored.
On the other hand, Wikileaks only shows us some of the emails. We don’t see context. We don’t see other staffers certain it’s going to be somebody else for VP. We don’t see related email discusses that cast this one in a different light. So of course whether this (verified) email means they’d firmly chosen Kaine is “mostly unproven”. The purpose of this document isn’t diagnosing what the emails mean, only the claims by Hillary’s people that these emails have been “doctored”.
As a side note, I offer a 1-BTC (one bit coin, ~$600 at today’s exchange rate) bounty to anybody who can prove me wrong. If you can doctor the above email, then you win the bounty. Some rules apply (i.e. it needs to be a real doctored email, not a trick). I offer this bounty because already people are trying to cast doubt on whether DKIM works, without offering any evidence. Put up or shut up.
Once the above gets in front of a wider audience, expect Russia demonization from Democratic hacks to go exponential.
Great work Mr. Graham.
In Liberty,
Michael Krieger
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Sure do appreciate your dilgence here Mike.
“cerebrally challenged”, I like that one, seems to fit quite a few people I have recently had the pleasure of meeting.
Kaine didn’t say they were doctored. He said the discussion which mentioned his name was inaccurate, and speculated doctoring as ONE possibility.
Here I thought I was on to something with a couple of essays I submitted to the Washington Blog about how the election, from primary to predicable end, was fixed by the media to replace Sander, a viable candidate who opposed the status quo, with an predictable pawn, Trump.Of how the Goldman Sachs transcripts showed a mutual understanding between Clinton (our next president), and representatives of the oligarchy, that the corporate War Profit Machine and a continued economic system which is fixed to only increase the wealth of the ultra-rich (individuals who own the corporate powers – the .1 and .01%), which is metastasizing throughout the world, destroying all forms of diversity, our planetary balance, civilizations, and the mass of mankind – showed collusion of our government and the ultimate powers. There appears to be plenty of redundancy by your article. Clearly they all fit together. In any true democracy the status quo should remain vulnerable, within their elections, and by a free press, to challenge the established status quo with a candidate of the people’s choice. This is all gone. FWIW – my essay; The Truth in Our Crimes
The Catholic Charity Gala, comprised of the sycophantic elite, summed up as the wishes of our government of WHAT THEY WOULD HAVE US TO BELIEVE AND WHAT WE SHOULD ACCEPT:
1. False: This event; God, Politics, the Media, and all that is Good and Great were represented in that room – in a microcosm of the United States with both being unequaled on Earth. Any one of us, if we are ambitious in those areas, could achieve a spot in that room.
1A. True: the people filling out this room were not the achievers of the highest unequaled authority. This room represented sycophants of the lowest moral order who either fought for a chair, applied through cronyism, or inherited, their position from within the wealthiest .1%. For the most part they represent the appendages, voice, and lack of conscience, of the very highest authority – the corporate sociopath(s) .001 elite. The only exception of the subset of this comfortable .1% may be a few members of the enlightened faithful – who may be aware of the hypocrisy filling the room – but have endured it for the end, however justified by the means. I am sure there were some present who pray for us all.
2. False: Our democracy is good, safe, durable, and above reproach.
2A. True: in reality the proof of the western oligarchy-US government collusion, with the War Profit Machine and the metathesizing, cancerous, economic system (that is so incredibly far out of balance with natural diversity, planetary balance, and social survival – it threatens our very species), was shown in the Clinton-Goldman Sachs transcripts, as an understood standing of an ongoing reality.
3. False: Trump was a normal part of the political process, no real division exists that could undermine our democratic process.
3A. True: Trump was a predictable pawn used in a process to undermine our democratic process. A true democracy should accept divisions. That was the reason for an established two or more party system of government. Any status quo should remain vulnerable in order to root out entrenched corruption. Senator Sanders was a viable contender to the status quo. The over ruling oligarchy, which should not exist in our idealized democracy, was allowed to own all major media outlets. This allowed a monopoly of our free press. A conspiracy was initiated that blacked out Bernie Sanders in the primary and endowed Trump with unprecedented amounts of free airtime. This undermined the recognition and message of a qualified candidate in the democrat primary running against Clinton, while giving Trump, an unqualified candidate, who was given a tremendous advantage in a large spread of somewhat qualified candidates in the republican primary. His unquestioned reputation, character, and temperament, coupled with his seemingly unlimited airtime, shifted the voters of both parties unhappy with the status quo to the weaker foot – insuring a presidential run off between the unpopular status quo candidate and an un-scrutinized, popularized, candidate full of hot air. His deflation and evisceration by the media of both parties after the nomination should have been expected. The only rigging, noticed by the arrogant Trump, was the last part – when in actuality the whole process was rigged – from the beginning to the predictable end.
4. False: Bernie Sanders has been placated and is part of Hillary’s platform.
4A. True: Sanders must wake up vomiting. While out of the loop in the conspiracy I am sure he has caught on, and wonder if anything he could have done could have made a difference. His message has been absorbed by the status quo he had wanted a fair fight with. Some followers were sucked in behind him. Many are lost and angry – like me (although not so lost). His message was superimposed with the rants of a buffoon whose followers are a disenfranchised lot who do not know which way to point. How many of his followers became more educated and stronger for the experience we have yet to know. The knowledge that an opportunity was squandered, perhaps forever, will grow, but in a soil increasingly depleted of nutritional facts.
5. False: WikiLeaks, the Russian dictatorship, American traitors, and the purported truth from beyond the closed door are one.
5A. True: from the dark, the perception of light becomes brighter as the door dividing them begins to close. This is a metaphor of the two edged sword of our digital technology. The spread of direct realities, like those shared through WikiLeaks, are invaluable to the masses that are eager and in need for unbiased information. The sacrifices of whistle-blowers like Snowden and others strengthen the heart and mind. The effort put into the studies and lectures from beyond the border, like those of social philosopher, Professor John McMurtry, is inspiring and offers us a path for an alternate future – should an opportunity be enforced. It is taking an increasing amount of effort and a learned talent to unveil the truth in all forms of media. From direct censorship, omission, to direct lies and foolish false conspiracies; they all conspire to misdirect the truth. Uncovering the truth, and the efforts put forth to find it, are a useful exercise of the mind. If the search for truth is difficult, the telling of truth, a crime, and the speaking of truth an insurrection, then we are correct in our assertion that a new truth is needed – or an old truth rediscovered. To find and reopen this door, to let back in the light, will be far more difficult once the darkness prevails.
Another essay I submitted to the Washington Blog should help make it clear to the redundant layers of tyranny that exist – an hopeful expression to those that are of like mind – that you are not alone in your thinking – nor alone in what you think. Fuck Them. I am really beginning to question the viability of our species. I look towards cetaceans; dolphins whose brains evolved intelligence perhaps beyond those of humans. While smaller in body to brain ratio, their brains are more complex, with an additional lobe forming from the limbic system, or empathy center – causing many to believe that they can experience and express between themselves, all 5 or more senses simultaneously. I would suggest an advance species whose intelligence evolved with a dominance of sexual selection (finding mates who they could best communicate with) over the human’s dominance of natural selection, picking mates by attractiveness and ability to dominate – and being able to manipulate his environment do to his appendages, developed through natural selection while a creature of prey. Dolphins, who evolved from herd animals on land, were also once prey. Both became predators. I submit that our technology, hijacked by the sub-species, the sociopath, has by a perverse profit motive for a very few, has NO net gain for humanity – when one considers the tech in our weapons of mass destruction, our digital markets, our planned obsolescence, and all our fragile icons of our supposed superiority. Just imagine that if an ability to communicate first, an ability to telepathically share all that we knew with another with eidetic memories, how the sharing of all feeling and knowledge would quickly be of one with each other and the universe we knew. Technology with such a creature would come later, after peace and full empathy were a given part of their nature. The sociopath in our empathetic human species is clearly a dead end branch that could not survive on its own. Without the commodity of human beings being exploited and extinguished between them, profiting on their human characteristics of empathy, conscience, grief, and greed.
Again, FWIW, another essay on the system we can see:
Self-Evident Truth Should Have No Choice
I am always determined to look at both sides. I know that given enough time all truths may be transient. Some truths we choose and if those truths are self-evident they should not become transient within the lifetime of the state that professes them.
I play my own devil’s advocate, if for no other reason than to see if I can find a philosophical reasoning, beyond selfish greed, exists on the other side.
TRUTH SHOULD NOT HAVE TO LIE. It was a sin of the highest order to replace Sanders with Trump. WE DID NOT DO THIS – IT WAS IMPOSED UPON US.
The media, from both political extremes, report of the WikiLeaks transcripts on the Clinton-Goldman Sachs conversations. They report from the Podesta Emails the pay for play – but this is old news, and a level of corruption we have learned to accept. What we do not have, from any media, is a connection of the dots – a reading from between the lines – the gravity of what was left unsaid. That is the mutual unsaid acceptance, going forward, that the ongoing War Profit Machine, and an unsustainable economic system, being metathesized throughout the world, will continue forward imposed upon a world, which is breaking under the weight of its demands.
It is if all media are unwilling or unable to report any conclusion shown by the facts.
That said, perhaps our current government and media, made of human beings who we feel have a choice to be weak or strong, are not as strong as Thomas Jefferson who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration states, “We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness….”
I have thought I had heard that the word “money” was once, during the drafting, replaced with “happiness”, but have found no confirmation – NONE – yet one might think today that it has been re-written as such.
The pursuit of happiness is defined as a fundamental right mentioned in the Declaration of Independence to freely pursue joy and live life in a way that makes you happy, as long as you don’t do anything illegal or violates the rights of others.
In that search I came upon many interesting and concise words and phrases of Jefferson and the other writers; “When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another,…
From Stephen Lucas, “Necessary,” according to Lucas, “is the most important word” in that section. It makes the case that colonists HAD NO CHOICE. They had to break away. From Lucas: “The colonists wanted to ensure that they not be labeled as rebels.” If revolution was “necessary,” then they weren’t rebels. From Gary, I assume an 18th century rebel would translate into a 21st century terrorist. I wish it never be necessary to cross those centuries.
Getting back to my attempt to give our current government, made of human beings, a break – in NOT breaking the servitude with the corporate powers – which I do not consider human as a corporate whole, or human as the sub-species who control them, the sociopaths; devoid of empathy or conscience – the very attributes of which intelligence evolved – a dead end sub-species if left alone without the renewable commodities of human beings to exploit and extinguish as profit demands. If left alone there would soon be one man standing.
PERHAPS our current government feels it HAS NO CHOICE – but to give in. These Ultimate Powers have existed in their infancy long before our government was born – soon after we began to indulge their adolescence. Some government would have been compelled, corrupted, or coerced, and if it had not been our government, it would have been another; the bombs would be falling on us.
Is this a fair excuse? It is only if you consider the current United States as a sub-culture of all the cultures and states on the planet – AND ALL THAT IT IMPLIES.
When/why does absolute power corrupt absolutely? Is there a CHOICE in our self-aware minds, as empathetic human beings, to make the CHOICE TO MAKE A STAND for our SPECIES, and be the stewards and leaders FOR ALL of mankind?
I would love nothing more than to forgive a government that made grave mistakes – and only learned from them when they discovered that they too – will one day be the other country. I and others too, believe we would put all our belief behind a government in its current position, a true turning point at a precipice come full circle, go to bended knee and ask forgiveness to all humanity – then truly lead by example. Only then will we survive as a species.
As for the sociopaths – send the drones to bite those who financed them, dissolve all debt, and give each human born their rightful inheritance and be dissolved of their inherited debt. Then proceed with only efficient technologies for the benefit of all human beings – then we shall righteously reap what we sow.
And a final submission to the blog and to those who will listen. Perhaps there is hope of another candidate who can oppose the established status quo – using the words from our constitution. The necessity to sever these bonds that bind us (today) to the tyranny of the ultimate corporate powers – a tiny fraction of the sociopathic branch of humanity – those who are willing, able, and eager, to do what no human being could do without those sociopathic tendencies.
The following are a link to Goldman Sachs-Clinton discussions from 2013. I have read only one and have a following comment. These are what were thought to be private conversation between our soon to be president and those who gathered and shared their questions and desires for The Highest Authority – the representatives of the owners of the great corporate powers.
These conversations were not intended for public consumption – therefor they are the closest you can come to the real character of the person and the powers represented there. This is just as the true Trump character, which is being exposed by the Clinton campaign, using the hot mic recordings with Billy Bush.
Read what you can into the transcripts. There is a lack of desire for peace, no questions of the current downward spiraling of the growing world economic system, etc. This is a slice of a reality in our world and certainly worthy of discussion here.
Link to transcripts of Clinton and Goldman Sachs -2013 (3 multi-page documents)
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11011 (copy and paste into the header)
I have been reading the transcripts of the discussions (which they sound more like than speeches) Clinton is having with a small number of members of Goldman Sachs and a surrounding audience. The tone sounds like she is reporting to these individuals – as I guess she is since they are paying her for detailed information, only someone in the State Dept. would have. She shares in depth descriptions of discussions of the leaders and statesmen (and their personalities) of various countries in conflict – complete with her opinions of their weaknesses and strengths. The person(s), primarily a Mr. Blankfein, she is talking to occasionally make a non-opinionated statement about a country or leader, and Clinton will change course to continue in their vein of interest. It is an intellectual, business casual, debriefing, with a mutual flux of opinions. The ongoing status quo is unquestioned and assumed to be absolute and unquestionable – even though it leads to a clear end to diverse societies and the mass of our species.
Its 2013, the deal with Iran has yet to be made. This is the just ex-secretary of state who is apparently going to be the next president. They appear to be discussing strategy for future policy from a shared perspective but unequal positions of power. When Mr. Blankfein does give his opinion, like the bombing of London in WW2 did not sway the surviving citizens to force their government to give in – in response to Clinton proposing to bomb Iran to stop their nuclear program, she gives in – but does mutter an incomplete sentence where she starts to claim the bombing of a democracy would be different than bombing a … and Blankfein interrupts.
When they are talking you get the strong feeling that the Goldman Sachs representatives are independent of any country and the people in the room were searching for answers for a higher authority.
Hillary found herself in defense of the dysfunction in our government and had none, only to add additional antidotes and expressed a wish the American voters would, or could, be more active in the removal of those unable or unwilling to compromise.
I am only ¾ of the way through 1 of 3 transcripts. I must say I was impressed at Clinton’s knowledge. I could not have possible pictured Trump in that room discussing those idea, histories, and possible outcomes. If we are to continue in this death spiral, colluding with the Western Oligarchy, then there is no more qualified person than Sec. Clinton.
We must face the fact that if not us, then another country would have been corrupted, challenged, or coerced, into making that connection; and the bombs would be falling on us.
If this is true is it what we must accept? Must we be a sociopathic state in order to survive? By the very definition of a sociopath, as a sub-species of homo-sapiens, they are a dead end branch on their own. Without human beings as the renewable commodity between them, to exploit and extinguish, as profit dictates, they would quickly destroy each other to the last man standing.
The Declaration of Independence states; “When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the Earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; …
The word “necessary” is very important because it declares that we have no choice but to dissolve the political bands (in today’s case, a sociopathic oligarchy) that have connected us to a form of slavery. It means that WE MUST DISSOLVE THESE BONDS – and that we must; for the very survival of our species.
Most disappointing thus far is that no one seems to see, or want to discuss, a bigger picture. No one is prepared to do anything outside of a socioeconomic system that cannot continue to exist. Growth, growth, growth ….It is not psychically sustainable on a finite planet without an expositional amount of pain for an ever growing ratio of humanity.
If someone will get me a stamped copy from Wikileaks of all the leaked emails that incriminate all these people ,with contact at Wikileaks, I will walk a copy of all hillary and her associates emails into the FBI office in Orange County California Ca. ,with a sitting Judge of the Superior Court of Orange County, as a citizen ,and make a civilian report which has not been done yet .They must investigate if the evidence is good. My Phone number 714 225 8500 it is a body shop I own .I have done it before on other governmental corruption and with the Judge as a witness I am confident the report and investigation will go . I do have a contact at FBI.
Thanks for the heads-up on this, I can’t believe I missed it myself.
I’ve just put up a site to verify any given email without importing everything into Thunderbird. Take a look at https://authentileaks.com– an email is like smoking gun, but an authenticated email is like having an eyewitness.
I noticed that the console showing the gmail.com had on its first line the word “root@…” and realized that Linux was being used. “dig” is a Linux utility and is installed by default on a lot of Linux distros. So, I decided to test the gmail key for myself. My results were the same, except that dig does not have to be run with root permission.
“jerry@jerry-Aspire-7739:~$ dig +short txt 20120113._domainkey.gmail.com
“k=rsa; p=MIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEA1Kd87/UeJjenpabgbFwh+eBCsSTrqmwIYYvywlbhbqoo2DymndFkbjOVIPIldNs/m40KF+yzMn1skyoxcTUGCQs8g3FgD2Ap3ZB5DekAo5wMmk4wimDO+U8QzI3SD0” “7y2+07wlNWwIt8svnxgdxGkVbbhzY8i+RQ9DpSVpPbF7ykQxtKXkv/ahW3KjViiAH+ghvvIhkx4xYSIc9oSwVmAl5OctMEeWUwg8Istjqz8BZeTWbf41fbNhte7Y+YqZOwq1Sd0DbvYAD9NOZK9vlfuac0598HY+vtSBczUiKERHv1yRbcaQtZFh5wtiRrN04BLUTD21MycBX5jYchHjPY/wIDAQAB”
jerry@jerry-Aspire-7739:~$ ”
The key I obtained is identical to the key Graham obtained. While Google’s gmail key is 2048 bytes, I use a 4096 byte key.