Return-Path: X-Original-To: apmail-couchdb-user-archive@www.apache.org Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-user-archive@www.apache.org Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by minotaur.apache.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4B0E6D298 for ; Wed, 4 Jul 2012 01:00:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 69981 invoked by uid 500); 4 Jul 2012 01:00:36 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-user-archive@couchdb.apache.org Received: (qmail 69903 invoked by uid 500); 4 Jul 2012 01:00:36 -0000 Mailing-List: contact user-help@couchdb.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: user@couchdb.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list user@couchdb.apache.org Received: (qmail 69895 invoked by uid 99); 4 Jul 2012 01:00:36 -0000 Received: from nike.apache.org (HELO nike.apache.org) (192.87.106.230) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Wed, 04 Jul 2012 01:00:36 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.0 required=5.0 tests=RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (nike.apache.org: domain of jens@couchbase.com designates 206.225.164.32 as permitted sender) Received: from [206.225.164.32] (HELO EXHUB020-5.exch020.serverdata.net) (206.225.164.32) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Wed, 04 Jul 2012 01:00:28 +0000 Received: from EXVMBX020-1.exch020.serverdata.net ([169.254.4.9]) by EXHUB020-5.exch020.serverdata.net ([206.225.164.32]) with mapi; Tue, 3 Jul 2012 18:00:07 -0700 From: Jens Alfke To: "user@couchdb.apache.org" Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 18:00:06 -0700 Subject: Re: Cryptograhically signed docs... Thread-Topic: Cryptograhically signed docs... Thread-Index: Ac1ZgFo3eVTBXNDpRMSXalr8opw2bQ== Message-ID: References: In-Reply-To: Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: acceptlanguage: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 On Jul 3, 2012, at 8:53 AM, Albin Stig=F6 wrote: > Did anyone experiment with cryptographically signing docs as a method > of "authentication"..? Yes; I proposed this about three years ago: http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/= SignedDocuments (although I've updated the spec a couple of times since the= n.) I have an Objective-C implementation of this that I've been working with, a= nd I got it partially implemented in Erlang (although my Erlang skills are = pretty rudimentary.) =97Jens=