Re: Proposed draft RDF Graph vocabulary

Chris Bizer wrote:

>>>Using signatures also don't make signing agents special (=owners),
>>>because
>>>several agent can sign the same named graph instance.
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>>True, and then they are joint owners/publishers, if that signing occurs
>>in the graph itself.
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> Initial comment: The signature of a graph can not be included into the graph
> for technical reasons.
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> Signing a graph works the following way:
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> 1. You take a graph
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> 2. You calculate the hash of it
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> 3. then you encrypt the hash using your private key.
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> Having the signature inside the graph makes it impossible to calculate the
> hash, because things are getting circular.
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This doesn't matter you just need to exclude that triple (the one with the 
signature) as a special case ... maybe it's better to replace the triple 
with an empty signature triple ...

_:w swp:signature ""^^xsd:base64Encoded .

then it is clear where you need to put it back again.

Jeremy