On Fri, 2 Feb 1996, Bryce wrote:
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An entity calling itself "Declan B. McCullagh" <declan+@CMU.EDU> is alleged to have written:
Now, this guy copied that file from my web site. Fine -- it was up for FTP. But editing my comments to *support* Neo-Nazis and leaving my name is just fucking too much. I've sent him polite mail requesting a change. We'll see what happens.
Polite? You show more restraint than most of us would I suspect. Actually it is probably a good tactic for the first encounter.
Certainly a lot more polite than I am...
Cypherpunk relevance? Authentication for web pages. There's no reason for a reasonable person to believe, at first glance, that I was *not* the author.
It is possible to PGP-clearsign web pages using comments. PGP's insertion of "- " before any line beginning with "-" might cause a problem, but you'll just have to be a little more careful.
What's wrong with a prominent PGP-signed notice in <PRE>'s that "This page, at URL [whatever], has a separate PGP signature at [other URL]." I've did that with the windows networking FAQ a few times until it just got to be too much trouble. -rich