On 2024-11-22 (Fri) 22:25:58+09:00, bawolff <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Essentially they are just some metadata signed with a public key. The idea
> is that the owner of the public key is responsible for verifying everything
> is true. But we allow randoms to upload files so i don't think it makes
> sense for us to sign these things.

Or even more so given that you have to pay a bunch of money to CAs. (because LE 
doesn't issue certs required for this stuff — S/MIME or 'Document Signing' 
certificates)

In theory WMF has the resource to buy the certificate, but IMO that would be a 
gross waste of donor money. (Or if they demand each user purchase the 
certificate, that might quickly go useless for our use case. I didn't read the 
docs beyond the 'you need to purchase' part.)

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