I haven't heard of a system to sign the page ala PGP but firmly believe
that medical content should be "signed" by the author. In speaking to "the
kilts" (Alan Hyslop and Paul Miller et al) about medical web publishing I
was suggesting that content which was not HTML'd by the author should be
viewed in a "private" (perhaps password protected) area before hard copy is
signed off to broadcast it.
It would be slick if the HTML page could be signed in effectively the same
way PGP does, to authenticate the author, not sure it could be done without
the encryption though.
Just playing around... I've attached a clearsig test.htm file and a
tamper.htm file. The trouble is of course that the PGP headers and footers
dangle all over the pretty HTML page which ends up looking like ...<snip>
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hello world ! I'm a PGGP signed HTML file !
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv
iQCVAwUBMp9v4bic+DoP1ukZAQG+LgP+IbpKJAu6PuqT8SNULCe/B6rKGui2yEiB
VXFqUT6Jf9TgavQHd8oSP/cZ8mbT6QuKqeszL0obUENRVhhbsjJ+rAcaBkEQJJzJ
6X4iowG1QislU5KbjbwkYHXlAoyLqita8EBH3kcraJL1A7pJf9arxj7TQjfrw1O3
YOuGfmUi7jE= =oOQA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
</snip>
It would of course be a good start if authors of medical content actually
started to use some of the written page conventions in publishing. I hammed
together some thoughts at
http://www.medweb.co.uk/public/reference/feature/feature.htm , what do you
think ?
Yours Paul
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Dr Paul Galloway
MedWeb UK http://www.medweb.co.uk
The interactive medical website for UK doctors
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> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Re: ROLL UP ROLL UP
> Date: Friday 29 November 1996 09:05
>
> [log in to unmask],Internet wrote at 3:02 pm on 29/11/96
> about "Re: ROLL UP ROLL UP":
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> >The quality
> >of Web information is of course a concern, and whether or not getting
this
> >quality of information, with the Web's location methods, presented in
this
> >format, is a "good thing" we will slowly discover I suspect.
> >
> >I hear that FDA over the pond are talking about identifying information
> >intended for patients/non-medical audience. Does anyone know how they
are
> >egtting on ?
>
> >Dr Paul Galloway
> -----------------------------
> Some system of signing these pages or items on them would be interesting.
>
> If the viewer, whether medical or non-medical found that the president of
> the royal college of physicians had signed a page (wherever it was from
> originally) then they might well think it was worth noting, provided it
> wasn't a surgical topic...
>
> Closer to home, if a viewer found their own GP had signed a page it might
> be helpful.
>
> A bit like keymanagement in PGP.
>
> Ideally of course one should be able to document the reverse essentially
> saying "I've seen it and do not support it".
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