why do they need signed in the first place?

On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 5:39 AM, Purodha Blissenbach <
[email protected]> wrote:

> In a discussion in the German Pirate Party the idea came up that we might
> want to have cryptographically signed wiki pages.
> I could not find that this has been implemented already anyhow.
>
> Thus, can we develop an extsion which provides cryptographically signed
> wiki pages?
>
> A brief and preliminaly scetch would mean that any user who provides a
> matching public key could sign any existing page.
> Before a page + signature is saved, the signature is checked for vadility.
> Editing a siged page is possible without resigning it.
> There must be a page display allowing to copy+paste the page with
> signature for external verification.
> Therre should be a button triggering the verifivation via an external
> online service.
> Maybe signature display of signed pages should be suppressable.
> Any numer of independent signatures must be possible to a page.
>
> Does that make sense? Anything vital forgotten?
>
> Feedback welcome.
>
> Greetings -- Purodha
>
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