Update: misread ichimmunk's comment. Sorry :(

Better would be a signed text file containing the approved MD5 or SHA1 hashes for the downloadable files or libraries.

In my original post, I said that downloadable files are so-signed. But how does the downloader know that it was signed by the right person? Seeing the same sig identity in other places establishes knowledge of that person. That's the whole point of doing this.

Besides having an external sig file for the whole page, here's a couple reasons why it would be nice to sign just parts of a page:

Consider signing the "script" that's embedded in a HTML file. I was also thinking of putting together parts into a single presented page, where each part is already signed. For example, public statements and contact info.

If HTML is dynamically generated, such quoted blocks, like "send payment to..." could have sig's built-into the template. —John

In reply to Re: (ichimunki) Re: Digital Signatures on Web Pages by John M. Dlugosz
in thread Digital Signatures on Web Pages by John M. Dlugosz

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