Dead Man's Switch

Hello @ainsley, I am trying to understand how this approach would work. Would you mind elaborating on the way of proving that the submitted timestamps are in fact real?

As far as I understand, there is no way to guarantee that some data has come from the blockchain unless you provide part of the blockchain long enough (difficult enough to fake) that contains the data you want. (This is at its core what the paralysis proof paper does.) However, as far as I understand, enigma does not do this.

According to this thread, and to my understanding of enigma, you will not be able to trust that any data is indeed from the blockchain (be it timestamps of variable state), so I do not understand what you mean by “checks the data to ensure it corresponds to the expected value in the Task Record on the Enigma Contract (on ethereum).”

Please correct me if I am wrong in my assumptions somewhere.