RasterWeb!

I like good ideas.

As mentioned previously here, pb implemented PGP/GPG signing into his commenting system. I thought this was a good idea. My idea, following up on that idea, was an easy way to sort of auto-discover someone’s public key. While I’ve got a pretty prominent link on my site to my public key, most people don’t. I suggested a <link rel="publickey"…> type of tag, so that given a person’s URL, you could get their key. I thought that was a good idea. Ben then followed up with Verifying PGP Signatures which talks about a web-based verification service with a trust web.

This seems to be the way to get things done nowadays… What’s next?

Oh, pb also has a nice little explanation of how to use PGP/GPG in a commenting system.

You should know, that without a doubt, the adult female member of our household makes the best chocolate chip cookies on the planet known as Earth. This I am sure of…

The Slashdot Interview with Joe Clark is a good read. We also learn that Joe is a vegan… (Just don’t try to validate any Slashdot pages!)

pb implemented PGP/GPG signing into his commenting system. I had mentioned doing this before, somewhere, on somebody’s site, not that I can remember where, but I think it’s a good idea. Perhaps at some point in the future when using public key encryption is easy enough for Mom do to, this will catch on.

As it is though, his system is well done, and not at all intrusive to people who don’t know squat about digital signatures. Does anyone besides me want to see a <link rel="publickey"…> tag?