signing web pages (simple way?)

[Anthony E . Greene]

On Mon, 18 Jun 2001 16:57:47 Daniele Russolillo wrote:
>Are u sure 'bout this? I just tried to do a detach sig (-sb option)
>and the original file's unchanged...so there wouldn't be any probs...are=
=20
>there, about the web page ...which could also contain the link of the
>sig before signing 'cause it's simply <filename.ext>.sig and so you already
>know it....

MSIE alters HTML documents when displaying the source. It adds a DocType
header and some other info that will cause a GPG/PGP verification to fail.
The user may be able to right-click and download the page instead of viewing
it. I'm not sure that will work, but it's worth a try.

Tony
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