- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 20:37:20 -0600
- To: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Cc: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>, Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>, Chris Bizer <chris@bizer.de>, Patrick Stickler <patrick.stickler@nokia.com>, www-archive@w3.org
>Dan Brickley wrote: > >>Just to de-lurk, yes this all makes sense. One technique that I >>believe to be deployable (even if a pragmatic hack) is PGP signing >>RDF files. >>For eg see http://usefulinc.com/foaf/signingFoafFiles >> >>PGP only assures that the file hasn't been changed since the signer >>interacted with it, doesn't assure that the signer asserts it. My >>working guess is that, if the doc itself claims that the signer is >>its creator, that is enough to bootstrap the claim that the signer >>asserts >>the triples encoded in the rdf/xml. Potentially tenuous but I can't >>think of how else to roll this stuff out... >> >>Dan >> > >My guess is that with only a little bit of common practice to that >effect, that this would stand up in a court of law. A digital >signature is a pretty heavy duty device and is already understood as >the analog of a written signature - and if the RDF stacks up as >saying affirmed by Jeremy and I have digitally signed it as Jeremy, >I think I would have a hard time trying to repudiate it. > >Jeremy (not digitally signed, not affirmed, take it or leave it!) Just to prove Patrick wrong, I hereby assert the contents of the above emails. Pat PS. Jeremy, surely you knew what you were doing when you formed a group with two people named 'Patrick' in it? Right? -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32501 (850)291 0667 cell phayes@ihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
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