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there is already a system in place to have verified comments

OpenPGP works for near anything



    -----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-----


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


Could you post an actual example? I'm having problems deciphering what that would end up looking like.


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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