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Re:Reddit CEO admits to altering user comments that were cri... by RubyPinch on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @10:58PM (#13027930)
there is already a system in place to have verified comments

OpenPGP works for near anything

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Re:Reddit CEO admits to altering user comments that were cri... by Nadya on Thursday November 24, 2016 @02:59AM (#13028945) 

    -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
    Hash: SHA256
    
    But it does get annoying to sign every comment.
    -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
    
    wsBcBAEBCAAQBQJYNp4wCRCuaVAPm2QoyQAAr8sIAHQaE5B+HYdCz6XBrysdHzr4
    ykR81zq5TXoMR+/f9UwuSi2I4881H4pEWsN9Fa0/qnpK/asNk+grEaMtB74DOg3p
    8Uy3lUvlVglj9QTPZ9Hf90e3HHLOW2OonXitYaf1xPoczIO8NgwwebDDZIVohU4u
    4EySOfgbP+VjwGbmtUJFeh0BifGN6b3DtKQrgVziWyumyK3WL9oz1kDAr4s24mCr
    227ty9d+7kwtYhaszkM8HwGnstZaNSan1jpVkmsLRMSr4JqNFyNWalN5LU85w2WV
    zwY0n8mA7tHnrCd+mWcjp845I8gGn7NoFPHXhG2m+yU/f1LDsyXUib5hut+iduQ=
    =jcN5
    -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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Re:Reddit CEO admits to altering user comments that were cri... by RubyPinch on Thursday November 24, 2016 @07:57AM (#13030072)
I do think relegating it to

    ${message}
    
        ${message sig metadata}
        ${message sig}
could be done easily enough, and would look okay too. and then allow people to install an extension to verify automatically or the such
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Re:Reddit CEO admits to altering user comments that were cri... by Nadya on Thursday November 24, 2016 @10:13PM (#13034189)
Could you post an actual example? I'm having problems deciphering what that would end up looking like.
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Re:Reddit CEO admits to altering user comments that were cri... by RubyPinch on Saturday November 26, 2016 @12:44AM (#13041922)
https://i.imgur.com/60ya7x8.png

I know its considered wrong to mess around with the structure, but this is reversible, looks neater, n' can be hidden (after verification) by third party tools with a simple "is this PGP-like, if yes, delete element" instead of mucking around, splitting arbitrary html

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