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The idea is simply to provide passive, sign-only
certificates
for sites that don't need encryption.
An online newspaper is a great example case. They serve
mostly static content and could easily sign their static
pages.
Advantages
-saves crypto overhead
-untrusted third party can do
hosting
Disadvantages
-only works for static content
code signing certificates
http://www.google.c...igning+certificates
Google search shows many results [RichardT, Oct 02 2011]
html signing certificates ?
http://www.google.c...signing+certificate
No relevant results found, mostly stuff about doing SSL without getting a certificate from verisign etc [RichardT, Oct 02 2011]
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One day in the future, everything will be digitally signed. It's just one of those things that makes sense. |
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