[sword-devel] encryption and integrity checking.

Manfred Bergmann bergmannmd at web.de
Wed Mar 11 03:56:45 MST 2009


Am 11.03.2009 um 10:33 schrieb Mark Trompell:

> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Manfred Bergmann wrote:
>> Just a thought.
>>
>> What about signing the module with a private key.
>> Every frontend has to have the public key included somewhere hidden.
>> This would enable an integrity check.
>
> 'somewhere hidden' doesn't work too well with opensource software

Well, yes. :)
But actually it wouldn't need to be hidden.
It still would detect changes to texts and also only CrossWire could  
sign modules.


Manfred




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