2015-09-13 18:47 GMT+02:00 Max Semenik <[email protected]>: > Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/538/ > > Gotta draw another version with "try using 'password1' as password"
> > >>> 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 > >>> > > IMHO a more legally binding solution would be attaching a signed plaintext containing page wikicode. This was identity check could be done also offline, without exclusively relying on site's infrastructure. Vito _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
