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Re: Post and registration, and new ideas

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On Sat, 19 Dec 2020 12:26:11 -0800
Anonymous <poster@anon.com> wrote:

> When I was playing with the code for the attachments, I had one more
> idea: following the concept from here:
> http://z5bqfv5v75kxy7pj.onion/soc/res/96.html
> where the user always attaches a signed version of the message as an
> asc file, it would be rather simple to validate the signature server
> side and show some kind of icon to the user (validated or not
> validated). Most of the code to do that I have already written for
> boxs...and I guess in php it would not be too hard either (thinking
> about fudforum, rslight and vichan here). If we would roll that out
> on all nodes, we would have indeed an identity management fully
> independent from platform or code, just like described in the
> original post (of course, each node could still handle local accounts
> in any way they want). Would be neat, I think. What do you think,
> Retro ?

I like the idea. We may have discussed similar before, or maybe that
was some conversation that took place inside my head, lol.

A currently undocumented 'feature' of rslight is to display when a post
was made from the site you're viewing on. The point was to keep people
from posting from elsewhere and impersonating a user on the site. Right
now, it simply displays the poster's username in italics, so if you see
that on my sites, it means it was really posted here. This is done with
a hash based on the message itself, and an internal site key.

It wouldn't be hard to make it specific to a user and not just the
site. rslight users already have a 'key' that can be used, or we can
use another method. If we can come up with a standardized method for
nodes, I'm all for it.

Retro Guy

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Post and registration, and new ideas Anonymous <poster@anon.com> - 2020-12-19 12:26 -0800
  Registration and posts work trw <trw@anon.com> - 2020-12-20 01:17 +0000
    Close to switching trw <trw@anon.com> - 2020-12-20 01:31 +0000
      a bbx post RetroGuy <RetroGuy@anon.com> - 2020-12-20 11:41 +0000
        Re: a bbx post retro.guy@rocksolidbbs.com (Retro Guy) - 2020-12-20 11:44 +0000
        The grass is always greener in the past... trw <trw@anon.com> - 2020-12-20 14:15 +0000
  Re: Post and registration, and new ideas Retro Guy <retro_guy@retrobbs.rocksolidbbs.com> - 2020-12-20 03:28 -0700
    pgp would be nice trw <trw@anon.com> - 2020-12-20 12:28 +0000
      Re: pgp would be nice retro.guy@rocksolidbbs.com (Retro Guy) - 2020-12-28 05:39 +0000
      Re: pgp would be nice trw <trw@i2pmail.org> - 2021-01-11 10:57 -0500

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