Idea: GPG signatures within HTML

Henryk Plötz henryk at ploetzli.ch
Sat Nov 22 07:07:14 PST 2003


Moin,

Am Sat, 22 Nov 2003 14:54:39 +0100 (CET) schrieb Thomas Shaddack:

> A trick with HTML (or SGML in general) tag and a comment, a browser
> plugin(or manual operation over saved source), and a GPG signature
> over part of the HTML file should do the job, with maintaining full
> backward compatibility and no problems for the users not using this
> scheme.

> Opinions, comments?

This is already done, although I'm not aware of any browser supporting
an automated verification. For an example look at the HTML source of
http://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/entscheidungen/frames/rk20030827_2bvr091103

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