On 24/03/17 17:12, Gregory Szorc wrote:
> This got me thinking: why doesn't the user agent get involved to help
> provide better download security? What my (not a web standard spec author)
> brain came up with is standardized metadata in the HTML for the download
> link (probably an <a>) that defines file integrity information. 

https://www.gerv.net/security/link-fingerprints/ .

The SRI team apparently didn't cover <a> in their first version because
it was in some way more complicated to get right than the tags they did
cover. But perhaps they remain open to doing so in a future version?

Gerv

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