-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hello Rich Graves <llurch@networking.stanford.edu> and bryce@colorado.edu and "Declan B. McCullagh" <declan+@cmu.edu>, cypherpunks@toad.com
On Fri, 2 Feb 1996, Bryce wrote: ... For the paranoid, it would be an added assurance that they are reading the original file at the original location. Otherwise, anybody could copy the Web page, modify it, and give it someone else's PGP signature. ...
So? I guess it's plagiarism, but there's nothing you can do about it anyway. If someone wants to claim your words, let them sign. ...
But yeah, it would look awfully silly, especially to the non-PGP-aware public. An unobstrusive PGP logo (below) would be great, and might become a status symbol, like those cheesy HTML validation service and Internet Audit Bureau logos (which I have used on a few pages).
Just put a "PGP signed" logo at the bottom of the page. If the user clicks on it then it hrefs to a .asc ... Yeah, I like the idea of a standardized logo. A lot.
One other thing - what about inline images? I guess you could put an MD5 hash of the image into the IMG tag, as a new attribute (you don't necessarily want to sign each of the images separately). I'm not sure how to do links, but I guess for the time being you'd leave them unsigned, with a disclaimer or something on the signature file. Have a look at http://www.cs.monash.edu.au/~jirib (my home page). Is that more-or-less what you have in mind? (Sorry about the cruddy logo - anybody a better artist than I am?) Hope that makes sense... Jiri - -- If you want an answer, please mail to <jirib@cs.monash.edu.au>. On sweeney, I may delete without reading! PGP 463A14D5 (but it's at home so it'll take a day or two) PGP EF0607F9 (but it's at uni so don't rely on it too much) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2i iQCVAwUBMRbq+yxV6mvvBgf5AQHUCgQAscQZb0fq9X+quFmOGGa/7D75yzbYeVjr IPYDkyHo51Sd+mUUyD8Wt7EtepcVgp5FNEgej0KjjA4gNMbTccZUdp+VoWm0mIDW qhENaWHvyFZ75+LuyeGqjd3WpvaI2yLzY5+48U5/iBo7XYMNuecZu7cRk+NmhZfv dEFT4eWUwy4= =Z14V -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----