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
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