[JDEV] Signed & encrypted messages

[Al Sutton]

I've read the draft and I'd like to suggest that a signature field is added
to the response to a key query performed via jabber:iq:keyExchange that
represents the digital signature of the key returned.  If jabber clients
carry a list of public keys from trusted key holders (or a list is easily
accessible to them), they could then indicate the level of trust placed on
that key, as well as verifying that no modifications were made in transit.

Does this sound useful?

Al.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mathew Johnston" <johnston at megaepic.com>
To: <jdev at jabber.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2001 7:26 PM
Subject: Re: [JDEV] Signed & encrypted messages


> Work IS underway, and a preliminary proposal is at
http://megaepic.com/~johnston/newencryption.txt
>
> Mat.
>
> On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 04:31:37PM +0100, Al Sutton wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've been digging around and not found any information on representing
> > either digitally signed messages, or encrypted messages (where the
message
> > itself is encrypted and thus doesn't need a transport such as SSL). Is
> > anyone working on this?
> >
> > Al.
> >
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