- From: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 18:17:02 +0100
- To: WebID Incubator Group WG <public-xg-webid@w3.org>
- Cc: WebID Incubator Group Issue Tracker <sysbot+tracker@w3.org>
On 22 February 2011 14:18, WebID Incubator Group Issue Tracker <sysbot+tracker@w3.org> wrote: > > WebID-ISSUE-46: Signing the profile document [research] > > http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/webid/track/issues/46 > > Raised by: Henry Story > On product: research > > > - What use cases would it solve? In a general sense it provides an endorsement to claims and also makes claims portable. Indeed, an X.509 certificate is just as signed set of claims. > > - How would one sign documents? An easy way to sign a document, or set of documents could be, but not limited to, use the existing tool chains supplied with many SCM systems. Git, for example, will allow you to sign a snapshot of documents+revisions using a PGP key, which can often be created from the same key pair used to create the X.509 cert used in the WebID. > > - How complicated would it be to put in place? > > - Can one start without signature, and then add information to add signatures later on? Or does one have to find a way of stating that initially? > > > >
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