Ask HN: Cryptographic timestamp?

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15 years ago

I have a few dozen ideas for various inventions and algorithms that are potential game changers but probably too big for me to pull off myself. So I would like to post them to my website and sign them somehow to prove that they were released on a specific date for prior art, to prevent them from being patented. I found this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_timestamping

But I'm not really sure where to go from here. Can anyone recommend an app to do this? If it's relevant, I'm on a Mac running 10.7. Most of the ideas require on the order of $5000 or more in living expenses and materials to explore over a couple of months, but they are not technically complicated, just abstract. I'm hoping eventually to see a kind of github/kickstarter for inventors so they can get the small funds to tinker on their projects and then release them into the public domain. Any ideas/suggestions there would be much appreciated. Projects like the windbelt and electric multicopter come to mind. There are so many relatively easy ideas that could move us into the 21st century but most of us are still trying to make rent each month...

Thanks!

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